The federal capital territory administration (FCTA) says it would continue its clampdown on commercial bike riders in the city.
Abdulateef Bello, the FCTA’s director of directorate of road traffic services (DRTS), spoke on Wednesday in Abuja, Abuja during the crushing of 476 bikes impounded for violating the restrictions.
According to him, the Directorate would sustain the impounding and crushing of the bikes so long as the operators kept violating the restrictions.
Bello urged residents to help the government in discouraging the lawlessness of these commercial motorcycle operators; stating that the restrictions are still valid, and the FCT Administration would remain committed to zero tolerance for violation of extant rules.
Ikharo Attah, senior special assistant to FCT minister on monitoring, inspection, and enforcement, who monitored the exercise said while the violators of rules continue to thrive in their negative attitudes, the taskforce will remain firm in going after them.
Attah expressed shock that after repeated warnings through different means, and the crushing of over 1,000 impounded bikes, a few months ago, people were still taking unnecessary economic risks by bringing in droves of commercial motorcycles to restricted areas.
“It is worrisome that despite all that we do on a daily basis, activities of these commercial motorcyclists have been linked with criminal activities. They ought not to operate within the Capital City, but here we have operated in total contraventions of what the law says in a modern city like Abuja,” the SSA stressed.
“We crush them in full public glare and scrap sold and the money paid into government’s coffers but the operators have not relented”, he decried.
