FCT To Crush 20 Seized ‘Rickety’ Vehicles, 10 Tricycles

The Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS) FCTA to crush 20 seized ‘rickety’ vehicles, 10 tricycles. 

Owners of the vehicles would also be prosecuted for using rickety vehicles or for operating from illegal motor parks.

DRTS’ Head of Operations said raid aimed to keep the capital city clean and free of rickety vehicles littering the streets.

The Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS) at the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Tuesday impounded at least 20 rickety vehicles, 10 tricycles and 15 motorcycles for various offences and indicated that it would crush them.

Speaking with journalists during the raid on Tuesday, the directorate’s Head of Operations, Mrs Deborah Osho, said that owners of the vehicles would also be prosecuted for using rickety vehicles or for operating from illegal motor parks.

She explained that the raid was conducted to rid the FCT of rickety vehicles as well as tricycles and motorcycles constituting a nuisance in the nation’s capital city.

She said :

“The main goal is to keep the city clean and free of rickety vehicles littering the streets of the capital city. Most of the commercial taxis, motorcycles, and tricycles were constituting a nuisance in the nation’s capital city. This is unacceptable.

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“We are doing everything we can to address the problem and we will continue to clamp down on all rickety vehicles and taxis operating illegal parks around the city.”

Osho urged FCT motorists to be law-abiding and to respect all traffic rules and regulations to ensure safer roads, a clean city and sanity in the capital city.

In his remarks, the Secretary, Command and Control, FCTA Taskforce, Mr Peter Olumuji, said ridding the city of all kinds of illegality would improve security.

Olumuji said the DRTS would continue to go after operators of illegal motor parks, rickety vehicles, and operators of commercial tricycles and motorcycles in collaboration with security agencies.

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