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By Emman Ovuakporie
Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Federal Roads Safety Corps, FRSC, Hon Mayowa Akinfilarin, on Monday debunked reports that he said road safety officers will soon start carrying arms.
TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports that the lawmaker claimed that the misleading report had made him to receive threats from all shades of Nigerians.
The lawmaker who disclosed this while briefing journalists in Abuja said:
“Since the misleading report was published I have received threat phone calls telling me that why should I make such a proposal when that of police is already causing stress.
He said: Even my constituents called to complain that I shouldn’t have made such a proposal.
“There was no time we discussed that when the corps top brass came to defend their 2021 budget as insinuated in the said report.
“We never in any way made such a proposal at the budget defence hearing, ” the Ondo lawmaker added.