The Federal Capital Territory Administration has crushed another set of 476 motorcycles impounded for operating in unauthorized areas.
The Director Directorate of Road Traffic Services ( DRTS) Dr. Abdulateef Bello, during the exercise at Area 1 in Abuja, said the crushing of the bikes would be sustained untill the riders comply with the restriction guidelines.
Dr Bello who explained that the Administration would not tolerate lawlessness in the nation’s capital, appealed to residents to support government in discouraging the riders from plying prohibited routes.
The Senior Special Assistant to FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement, Comrade Ikharo Attah who observed the exercise, said the taskforce would remain firm in going after the violators.
Comrade Attah while lamenting the excesses of the riders, expressed shock that despite the thousands of impounded bikes already crushed in public glare few months ago, some commercial bike riders are still adamant.
Attah stated that, “we would continue to crush them in full public glare and scrap sold while the money paid into government’s account.”
” It is worrisome that despite all that we do on a daily basis, the activities of these commercial motorcyclists have been linked with criminal activities…they ought not to operate within the Capital City, but here we are seeing them operating in total contravention of what the law says in a modern city like Abuja.
I thought that having crushed thousands of the illegal bikes, this menace would have reduced. If not that we crush them publicly, people would have been thinking that we sold them to ourselves.
