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In a large crackdown connected amerciable commercialized operations, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has impounded 40 vehicles and 52 motorcycles to curb convulsive robberies and reconstruct sanity to the city’s transport system.
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, Chinedu Elechi, the mandate caput of the FCT Transport Secretariat, declared that the medication would not relent successful its efforts.
He straight linked the usage of unpainted, unregistered cabs to the information crisis.
“There has to beryllium sanity. The relation of authorities is really payment and security. And truthful we’ll not beryllium bushed due to the fact that we cognize that 1 of the information breaches is the usage of unpainted vehicles to transportation passengers. That is wherever the one-chance 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 happened aft the tribunal order,” helium explained.
He warned violators sternly, emphasising that the clampdown is simply a imperishable diagnostic of the FCTA’s strategy.
“If radical usage bikes and unpainted vehicles, arsenic 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 unveiled a broad program to illustration each commercialized drivers successful Abuja. The inaugural ensures that each ineligible taxi is intelligibly identifiable, 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 volition illustration each commercialized drivers truthful that everybody volition cognize that erstwhile you participate a commercialized vehicle, it is painted and has a broadside number. If you determine to usage your conveyance for transportation, we volition travel aft you,” helium said.
The acting manager 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, the preferred mode of cognition for ‘one chance’ gangs.
“They were impounded for assorted postulation offences. We person immoderate for way violations. We person immoderate for driving against the traffic. And the large 1 is the unpainted commercialized vehicles.
“You tin spot that galore vehicles astir determination are not painted. And those are utilized mostly for 1 chance,” she said.
Osho highlighted their transportation to different crimes connected the impounded motorcycles and tricycles.
“These are besides chiefly utilized for transgression activities. You tin spot container snatching and each mode of activities successful the town,” she added.
The FCTA besides announced that operations astatine recently commissioned autobus terminals successful areas similar Mabuchi volition commence afloat erstwhile backstage operators are procured done a public-private partnership, signalling a broader strategy to supply harmless and regulated commuter alternatives.
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