The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) yesterday rewarded about 285 of its personnel in Zone 2 Command, comprising Lagos and Ogun states, with ‘integrity award’ for shunning bribe.
Speaking with journalists in Lagos during the presentation of the award, FRSC Zonal Commander, ACM Nseobong Akpabio, said the awardees were selected based on display of integrity at work and refusing to take bribes offered them in the discharge of their duties.
He said: “We have consistently preached zero-tolerance to corruption. We are one of the agencies that are particular on this. In the past, our staff have won national and international laurels on integrity from different organisations. “We have a monitoring team on the roads and offices that interface with the motoring public and report their findings back to the office.
We drew our list of these awardees from that campaign. “We thoroughly screened our integrity list before this award. After passing our integrity test, we would sustain this strategy to flush out bad eggs among us and while rewarding those that have shown impeccable integrity.”
Akpabio emphasised the need for the motoring public to desist from offering money to his personnel. According to him, both the giver and taker of bribes commit the same offence. Delivering a lecture entitled: “Effect of corruption on service delivery,” Mr Arinze Echeta (a lawyer) of Maranatha Chambers bemoaned the socio-economic and political impoverishment; the evil of corruption has brought to the country.
