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The special anti-robbery squad of the Anambra state police command has arrested three persons connected to a recent mob attack on a patrol team of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).

It was reported that the mob attacked the officials at the Igbo-Ukwu area of the state after they had allegedly demanded bribe from a motorcyclist.

But in a statement, Bisi Kazeem, spokesperson of the FRSC, said the assertion was not correct.

Kazeem said the motorcyclist fell after he had tried to evade arrest upon sighting the corps.

“The true position is that an offending Okada man who sighted our personnel on normal patrol, suddenly turned to escape arrest and fell in the process,” the statement read.

“His fall attracted sympathy from miscreants and other Okada men who then seized the opportunity to mob the personnel.”

Kazeem also said efforts to apprehend and prosecute the “Okada riders”.

He also said Boboye Oyeyemi, corps marshall of the FRSC, commended the police for their prompt reaction.

“He added that the Corps would no longer tolerate the harassment, assault and victimisation of its personnel on flimsy excuses and trivial issues,” it read.