In line with its plans of riding the city of the menace of commercial motorcyclists, the FCT Administration has commenced an on the spot confiscation and crushing of motorcycles found in restricted area.
A joint enforcement taskteam on Thursday, took its operations to notorious hotspots in Durumi I and Durumi II, and other hotspots within Abuja Municipal Area Council where over 200 motorcycles were confiscated and crushed.
Other areas raided include Lokogoma roundabout, Piwoyi Junction near Shoprite mall, Lugbe FHA, and popular Lugbe Police signboard, along Airport Road, all in AMAC, where some riders are in the habit of attacking enforcement officers.
The team comprising of officers from the FCT Directorate of Road Traffic Services and Abuja Environmental Protection Board, with security cover from the Police, Military and Paramilitary operatives, also apprehended some recalcitrant operators, for contravening traffic rules as well as constituting security threats in the FCT.
Flagging off the exercise, in a field opposite Living Faith Church, in Durumi II, Secretary, FCT Transportation Secretariat, Abdullahi Candido, said the exercise will be a continuous one, untill prohibited motorcycles are completely flushed out.
Candido reiterated that any lawless citizen wishing to test the will of the government will not be tolerated.
“The FCTA will now be more determined than before, because of the security and maintenance of the plan of the city, so we can have good city that all Nigerians will be proud of.
“This is a developing city that is guided by planned policies of government, which we must not allow any lawless person to set backward.
“On behalf of the FCTA , let me re-echo that we will never watch people who do not have respect for the law to overhaul the good citizens who want things going in a decent manner”, he stressed.
Also speaking, DRTS Director, Abdullateef Bello disclosed that the confiscation and crushing of the about two hundred motorcycles were to serve as serious deterrence to others especially the recalcitrant operators.
He explained that the exercise was in line with policy that prohibited their operation within the nation’s capital city since 2006.
Other top officials who witnessed the flagging off of the exercise include Heads and representatives of the various security and paramilitary agencies operating in the FCT.