‘One Chance’: FCTA seizes 40 Vehicles, 52 Motorcycles

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA: The Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA has intensified its clampdown connected amerciable transport operators successful Abuja, impounding 40 vehicles and 52 motorcycles linked to postulation violations and transgression activities, including the notorious “one chance” robberies.

Mandate Secretary of the FCT Transport Secretariat, Barr. Chinedu Elechi, said the cognition was carried retired by a multi-agency task unit comprising the police, civilian defence and others.

He explained that portion commercialized motorcycles seized during the raid would beryllium crushed, vehicles would acquisition mobile tribunal processes earlier decisions connected their destiny are made.

“We don’t conscionable impound; the owners volition look a mobile court. The bikes volition beryllium crushed, but everything happens aft the tribunal order,” Elechi stated during an inspection of the seized vehicles astatine the Wuye bid of the Directorate of Road Traffic Services DRTS.

He warned that the clampdown would beryllium sustained arsenic agelong arsenic violators persist. “If radical support utilizing motorcycles and unpainted vehicles illegally, we excessively cannot beryllium bushed of enforcement. It is an FCT task, and we volition support doing it,” helium said.

Elechi linked the enforcement thrust to broader information concerns successful the capital, noting that unpainted commercialized vehicles are often utilized to perpetrate “one chance” robberies.

“There has to beryllium sanity. One of the large information breaches comes from unpainted vehicles. It hardly happens with painted taxis,” helium added.

The Secretary besides revealed plans to illustration each commercialized drivers successful Abuja and allocate numbers to taxis arsenic portion of efforts to sanitize the sector. “If you privation to run arsenic a commercialized operator successful Abuja, your conveyance indispensable beryllium painted and registered with a broadside number. Using idiosyncratic cars for transport is amerciable and that is however 1 accidental thrives,” helium warned.

On the recently commissioned autobus terminals, Elechi said operations would statesman erstwhile procurement processes for backstage operators nether a public-private concern statement are concluded.

Acting Director of DRTS, Deborah Osho, added that the seizures were owed to a scope of postulation offences, with unpainted commercialized taxis topping the list.

She disclosed that successful summation to the 40 vehicles and 52 motorcycles, 4 tricycles were besides impounded.

“These tricycles and motorcycles are mostly linked to transgression activities similar container snatching and postulation violations. That’s wherefore they were taken disconnected the roads,” Osho explained.

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