The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has vowed to continue its zealous implementation of the Okada prohibition despite threats against the task force team....CONTINUE READING
Comrade Ikharo Attah, the Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection, and Enforcement, revealed this on Wednesday in Area 1, Garki, during the crushing of approximately 476 bikes that had been impounded from those who had broken the ban…..CONTINUE READING
Attah expressed concern that people continued to take unwarranted financial risks by bringing large numbers of commercial motorcycles into prohibited regions despite receiving several warnings via various channels and smashing over 1,000 seized bikes a few months ago.
While he acknowledged that stone-peddling attackers attacked the task force during the enforcement exercise, he stated that the legal enforcement of laws cannot be dissuaded by acts of lawlessness and attacks of any kind.
According to him:” It is worrisome that despite all that we do on a daily basis, the activities of these commercial motorcyclists have been linked with criminal activities.
” They ought not to operate within the Capital City, but here we have operating in total contraventions of what the law says in a modern city like Abuja.
” I thought that having crushed so many thousands of the illegal bikes, this menace would have reduced. If not that we crush them publicly, people would have been thinking that we sell them to ourselves.
” We are crushing them in full public glare and scrap is sold and the money paid into government’s account”, Attah said.
Meanwhile, the Director Directorate of Road Traffic Services ( DRTS) Dr. Abdulateef Bello, said the impounding and crushing of the bikes will be sustained, so long as the operators keep violating the restrictions.
Bello, however, urged residents to help government in discouraging the lawlessness of these bike riders, stating that the restrictions are still valid, and that the administration would remain committed to zero tolerant to violation of extant rules.
“We want to inform the public that the joint task team will not rest in ensuring that the menace of commercial motorcycles were completely removed from the Capital City”, he said…..CONTINUE READING
