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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says the video of a female official struggling with a driver in a moving vehicle was manipulated.

The video went viral last week and the commission vowed to probe it in order to determine its authenticity.

In a statement on Tuesday, Bisi Kazeem, spokesman of the FRSC, quoted Boboye Oyeyemi, the corps marshal, as saying that the probe revealed that the video released by the driver only told a side of the story.

Oyeyemi said the driver would be prosecuted to deter others.

“An investigation panel revealed that a patrol team flagged down a driver for routine checks. When his car was to be impounded for running foul of traffic laws, a female staff was attached to the offender’s vehicle,” the corps marshal said.

“She was to accompany the vehicle to a nearby FRSC office for other necessary processes as contained in the operational procedure to be effected, but the driver sped away with the female staff.

“A patrol team, obviously concerned about the motive of the fleeing driver, had to apply force to rescue the female operative.

“The manipulated video which the suspect released afterwards only told one side of the story. The corps is determined to follow through with the suspect’s prosecution as a deterrent.”