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FCT Task Force Impounds 72 Motorcycles, Vehicles, Tricycles
In continuation with its clampdown on illegal motor parks and garages in Abuja, officials of the Federal Capital Territory Directorate of Road Traffic Services otherwise known as Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO) in collaboration with FCTA Command and Control Task team on city sanitation yesterday raided and confiscated automobiles from some notorious hotspots within the nation’s capital.
No fewer than 41 motorcycles, 22 vehicles, and 14 tricycles were impounded during the exercise that lasted six hours.
Some of the areas raided were Area 3 Junction, Apo Roundabout, Guzape Junction near former SARS Headquarters, AYA Roundabout and AA Rano, Old CBN Junction in Garki, the bridge at Apo Legislative, Gudu market Junction, Galadimawa roundabout, and Main Entrance of Games Village.
Head of FCT DTRS Task team, Adamu Shehu Maiwada led the officials drawn from Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) and the various traffic management and security agencies during the exercise.
Mr. Kalu Emetu, Head of Public Relations and Enlightenment (DRTS), while speaking on the exercise, said it was a continuation of efforts to ensure the free flow of traffic on Abuja roads.
Emetu added that the hotspots were raided, to rid them of all the activities that obstruct traffic on roads in the city, saying that the confiscation of the tricycles and vehicles are to deter others from engaging in such menace.
“What the Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS) did again today is to remind residents that there are designated places that they need to park their vehicles, and places they need to load or pick passengers in the city.