The Special Task Team on the City Cleaning and Management inaugurated by the Federal Capital Territory Administration, has secured the conviction and sentencing of 25 Okada riders without an option of fines.
They were convicted by the mobile courts for violating environmental laws.
The FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, who said this on Monday in Abuja, explained that the Task Team to date had prosecuted 41 offenders at the mobile courts.
According to him, four persons were discharged while the cases involving other offenders are ongoing.
The minister said the team had arrested 492 commercial sex workers and 128 miscreants as well as 17 mentally ill persons.
On non-usage of pedestrian bridges and destruction of barricades by residents, the minister warned that anyone found crossing the highways would face the wrath of the law.
Mohammed directed the security agencies, particularly the Police and the Directorate of Road Traffic Services, popularly known as VIO, to deploy personnel in some critical points to enforce compliance with the usage of the pedestrian bridges in Area 1, 3, Garki, Kubwa, Lugbe and Dei-Dei.
Meanwhile, the Task Team, headed by the FCT Police Commissioner, Mr. Wilson Inalegwu, has called for the review of the fines and penalties in the Abuja Environmental Protection Board laws.

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