Taskforce of the Federal Capital Territory Administration on Tuesday impounded no fewer than 39 motorcycles along Airport Road in Luge.The motorcyclists were said to have disobeyed the traffic rules which restrained them from plying the route.Speaking during the exercise, Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, Ikharo Attah, lamented that motorcyclists have continued to violate the traffic rules and regulations along the Airport road and other places where restrictions orders still subsist.Attah vowed that the team would continue to rid the road corridors of nuisance.He said, “Lugbe-Airport road axis, is one of the restricted places where Okada riders are not allowed to operate, but they have remained adamant and have disobeying the laws.“The operation was not without hitches, we have impounded 39 motorcycles, but came under attack by some Okada riders who came with cutlasses. We didn’t know they were having cutlasses, it was when some of the officers confronted them to impound the motorcycles that they were attacked.“But for the gallantry of the Nigerian Police and other Officers, the attackers were overpowered. There is some form of resistance by the Okada Operators, but there is also a strong political will from the FCT Minister and the New Director DRTS and all the Officers here to rid Abuja of all nuisances”,He noted that notwithstanding the resistance from the operators, the Minister, the taskforce remain committed to cleaning the city and restoring environmental sanity in all parts of the territory.
Taskforce impounds 39 motorcycles in Abuja
