Our official not involved in robbery, says FRSC

Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) yesterday denied allegation that one of its officials was involved in robbery.
According to a missive sent to commission’s Abuja office and copied New Telegraph, the Lagos State Command of the FRSC said it had carried out investigation and discovered that none of its officials was connected to robbery.
The FRSC’s reaction was fallout of New Telegraph report, where the modus operandi of a robbery gang was unveiled. New Telegraph had on Wednesday reported how a police sergeant, Zakaria (second name withheld), attached to Mopol 20, Lagos State, was arrested for armed robbery. Zakaria was arrested for receiving stolen vehicles.
Police discovered that Zakaria used to sell the stolen cars to ready buyers and give others out for car hire service. Zakaria was fingered by a suspected car thief identified as Olaitan Olajide. Olajide was arrested after he stole one of the cars parked inside a Catholic church in Festac area of Amuwo-Odofin. Detectives investigating the crime discovered that an FRSC official was also involved in the gang.
The work of the said official is to wipe out the original registration of the stolen vehicle from the database and register it again. Revealing how the gang works changing the identity of stolen vehicles, a police source said: “It’s actually Zakaria that used to handle that aspect for the gang. He has an agent in the FRSC licencing office. Once they wipe off the registration of the stolen car from the system, nobody would ever be able to find it.
“Zakaria gives the FRSC official money and the person would wipe off the original registration. He would now register the vehicle as a new one, giving it new number. If you want to trace the former one, you wouldn’t be able to do that.” But the FRSC Zonal Intelligence Officer, Mr. Akinola Adeniyi, denied the story. He said: “The suspects, one Zakari, not Zakaria as published, and his accomplice both denied ever mentioning any FRSC official in connection with the robbery for which they were arrested.
“The Investigating Police Officer (IPO) equally corroborated the statement of the two suspects that there was no mentioning of FRSC staff in connection with the case in question. The O/C SARS equally asked his Staff Officer to crosscheck on all pending robbery cases to see if there was any case where any FRSC staff was involved but there was none.
“From the findings above, there is no robbery case presently in Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Police where FRSC staff was mentioned as a member of the gang. Therefore, the reported involvement of an FRSC staff as published in the New Telegraph was a figment of the writer’s imagination.”https://newtelegraphonline.com/official-not-involved-robbery-says-frsc/