The joint enforcement team of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, on Thursday, took its massive raid exercise to major roads connecting communities along the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport road and Kaura District, Galadimawa, Abuja.

The team accompanied by operatives from the police, military and paramilitary stormed and ransacked Okada operators caught while operating in the area.


Eagles FM Correspondent, Toffa Momoh monitored the exercise and now brings us the details.


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The Ministerial Joint Enforcement Team of the Federal Capital Territory Administration today continued its clampdown exercise along the Airport road, Lugbe and Kaura District.

This is as top officials of FCTA, heads and representatives of various security agencies including paramilitary organisations domiciled in the FCT observed the crushing exercise, which took place inside an open space at Galadimawa Roundabout.

Areas raided include Bill Clinton interchange, Karon-Majiji, Kuchingoro, Piwoyi Junction near Shoprite mall, Lugbe FHA, popular Lugbe Car wash, Police signboard, along Airport Road, all in Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, where the taskteam clampdown on some riders, who attempted to flee the scene.

Explaining the exercise to newsmen, Secretary, FCT Transportation Secretariat, Peter Olujimi, reiterated that the government will not relent on the reinvigorated effort to rid the city of the menace.

He warned the operators and owners of commercial motorcycles to keep off the major roads of Abuja, especially the city centres and the gateways into the FCT.



Similarly, the Director, Directorate of Road Traffic Services, DRTS, Abdulateef Bello, said the exercise, which is a continuation of the signature enforcement of the ban of okada operations in the city, is a proof to its zero tolerance of the menace.

According to him, their continued insistence to operate in the city is no longer a traffic offence, but a serious security breach that required the intervention of the government, hence the involvement of military and paramilitary agencies to effectively tackle the situation.


Also speaking, the Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement, Ikhato Attah said the choice of the location for the signature exercise was in order to send a strong signal to the perpetrators in a different direction, adding that as long as they remain recalcitrant, the FCTA remain resolute to clamp down on them.


The Directorate of Road Traffic Services said about 450 motorcycles were crushed, meanwhile, a physical count revealed over two thousand motorcycles.


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Pity-fool. The poor are always on the receiving side

Election is over and the heat on the masses has resumed.

TemplarLandry:
All these metal should have be en sold to automobile companies for recycling. We like wasting resources.

them dey think

Nigeria is too poor to be crushing bikes, it should be recycled or sent to the villages where it will be of great value.