One Chance: FCTA seizes 40 vehicles, 52 motorcycles

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA—The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has intensified 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, Mr Chinedu Elechi, said the cognition was carried retired by a multi-agency task unit comprising the police, civilian defence and others.

“We don’t conscionable impound, the owners volition look a mobile court. The bikes volition beryllium crushed, but everything volition hap 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.

“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.

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

“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.

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