As the task team continues with its clampdown on illegal motor parks and garages in Abuja, officials of the FCT Directorate of Road Traffic Services otherwise known as Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO) in collaboration with FCTA Command and Control Task team on city Sanitation Monday raided and confiscated automobiles from some notorious hotspots within the nation’s capital city centre.
No fewer than forty-one (41) motorcycles, twenty-two (22) vehicles and fourteen (14) tricycles were impounded during the exercise that lasted six hours.
Some of the areas raided include: Area 3 junction, Apo roundabout, Guzape junction near former SARS headquarters and 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 respectively.
Head of FCT DTRS Task team, Adamu Shehu Maiwada led the officials drawn from Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), various traffic management and security agencies during the exercise.
Explaining the exercise, head of public relations and enlightenment, DTRS, Mr. Kalu Emetu, said it was continuation of efforts to ensure 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.
