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In a determination to curb convulsive robberies and reconstruct sanity to the city’s transport system, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has impounded 40 vehicles and 52 motorcycles successful a large crackdown connected amerciable commercialized operations.
The operation, which targeted vehicles utilized for the notorious ‘one chance’ crimes, wherever criminals posing arsenic taxi drivers rob and battle passengers, was conducted by a multi-agency task unit involving the police, civilian defence, and the Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS).
Inspecting the seized vehicles astatine the Wuye DRTS’ Command, the Mandate Secretary of the FCT Transport Secretariat, Chinedu Elechi, declared that the medication would not relent successful its efforts.
He straight linked the usage of unpainted, unregistered cabs to information situation wrong the FCT.
“There has to beryllium sanity. The relation of authorities is really the payment and security. And truthful we’ll not beryllium bushed due to the fact that we cognize that 1 of the information breaches is this usage of unpainted vehicles to transportation passengers. That is wherever the 1 accidental happening happens. It hardly happens with the painted taxis,” helium said.
Elechi clarified that portion the impounded motorcycles would beryllium crushed, the vehicles would look owed process done mobile courts.
“We don’t conscionable impound, the owners volition look a mobile court. All of these things hap aft the tribunal order,” helium explained.
He sternly warned violators, emphasising that the clampdown was a imperishable diagnostic of the FCTA’s strategy.
“If the radical usage the bikes and the unpainted vehicles, truthful agelong arsenic they are not bushed of violating the law, we excessively cannot beryllium tired. So sustainability is arsenic they violate. It’s an FCT task. We’ll support doing it and doing it,” helium said.
The caput who unveiled a broad program to illustration each commercialized drivers successful Abuja, said the inaugural aims to guarantee that each lawful taxi is intelligibly identifiable, thereby protecting commuters.
“We are going to person information programmes involving getting each the drivers. We volition allocate numbers to each the taxis.
“If you are going to beryllium doing proscription successful Abuja, we are going to illustration each commercialized drivers truthful that everybody volition cognize that erstwhile you are entering a commercialized vehicle, it is painted, it has a broadside number. If you determine to usage your idiosyncratic conveyance to bash transportation, we volition travel aft you,” helium said.
The Acting Director of the DRTS, Deborah Osho, provided a breakdown of the offences that led to the seizures.
She confirmed that the superior people was unpainted taxis, which were the preferred mode of cognition for ‘one chance’ gangs.
“They were impounded for assorted postulation offences. We person immoderate for way violation. We person immoderate for driving against the traffic. And the large 1 is the unpainted commercialized vehicles.
“You tin spot that a batch of vehicles astir determination are not painted. And those are the ones that person been utilized mostly for ‘one chance’,” she said.
On the impounded motorcycles and tricycles, Osho highlighted their transportation to different crimes.
“These ones besides are mostly utilized for transgression activities. You tin spot for container snatching and each mode of activities successful the town,” she added.
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