According to reports making the rounds on social media, Calistus Okune, a driver attached to the Cross River State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Peter Egba, was on Wednesday remanded in the Afokang Prison in Calabar for allegedly assaulting two officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps.

It is not clear what exactly happened, however, Inok Solomon posted these photos along with a post titled: “Commissioner’s 5 Years Old Son Almost Suffocated In a Car While Men of FRSC Held His Driver for Documents.” Read what Inok wrote below…

The Commissioner for Commerce and Industry , Mr. Peter Egba, almost lost his 5 years old son, as men of the Federal Road Safety Commission held his driver to provide documents and driver’s license. 

A source revealed that the Commissioner was on his way travelling out of Calabar to settle a communal dispute between two communities in Obubra, when his driver, who went to get his son from school, called and told him that men of the Federal Road Safety Commission impounded his car and seized the particulars.

He drove to the scene and first asked of his son, Dominion Egba, who, all the while, has been forgotten in the Car. The Child, afraid of what was going on outside, remained inside the car amidst heightened intensity of a scorching sun and almost suffocated.

The Commissioner, who before coming had requested to speak with the Road Safety officer through his driver and was turned down, pull out the child and approached the officer to plead for them to release the car for the sake of the little boy, but was verbally insulted.
The driver in trying to stop the officer from insulting the boss, resulted in a fight between the driver and the Road Safety officer.

The story making rounds on Social Media that the Commissioner for Commerce fought was not true and from the pictures below, he is seen trying stall the fight between his driver and the FRSC officer just as other FRSC officers are also seen doing in the picture.

It is a common thing in our African Culture mostly in Cross River State, that we hardly can deny separating two fighters. As a commissioner in such a situation doing what is right should not be misinterpreted to mean fighting just to score a point of “pull them down syndrome”.

Mr. Peter Egba by nature and history is a calm headed man. All who did the fake report never thought it wise to hear from him. This proves true that the reports are in bad faith and negatively motivated. At this point of hard economic times, all we need is team work and corporation not pull them down as the case with some group of persons.

Six persons including an eight year old girl sustained serious injuries after an official of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Sokoto state command, allegedly hurled stones into a moving commercial vehicle along Western Bye-pass in Sokoto yesterday December 4th.

DailyTrust reports that the FRSC official in an attempt to make the driver stop for inspection, hurled stones on the moving vehicle.

The stone hit the driver which caused him to lose control and then his vehicle somersaulted. All the passengers in the bus were seriously injured. A timely intervention by the police helped to stop a mob from physically attacking the FRSC officials and burning their patrol van.

Giving an account of what happened, driver of the commercial bus, Muhammad Sanusi, said while he was driving from Silame local government area to Sokoto metropolis, he met some FRSC officials who asked him to stop and as he was driving off the road to park properly, one of the corps members who thought he wanted to run away picked a very big stone and threw it at him.

The stone reportedly hit him on his right hand as a result of which he lost control of the vehicle. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Almustapha Sani confirmed the incident but however stated that the police is still gathering information about the incident.