33 FRSC officials, one other arrested over highway extortion
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By Soni Daniel
No fewer than 33 officials of the Federal Road Safety Commission have been arrested by a combined team of Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, Department of State Services and the Federal Road Safety Commission.
The arrests, which also included a civilian, was jointed conducted under an operation codenamed “Operation Tranquility V” to rid the agency of bad eggs whose extortion of motorists on the nation’s highways has given the establishment a bad image.
The Spokesman for the ICPC, Mrs. Azuka Ogugua, said in a statement on Friday that the. raids were carried out simultaneously in five locations nationwide.
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Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has commissioned the first-ever Computerized Vehicle Inspection Center in Abia State with a charge to the operators to make the facility an enabler that would support growth of transport business in the state.
Commissioning the facility in Aba, Governor Ikpeazu said the transport business should not be an obstacle to the economic development of the State
The Governor stated that a good transport system enhances trade and commerce, economic development and investment, and charged transporters to be good ambassadors of the State.
He noted that the facility has placed Abia State on the map of modern economic development.
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