FCTA crushes 601 impounded motorcycles
The Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS), Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Tuesday, crushed 601 impounded motorcycles. Dr Elechi Chinedum, Mandate Secretary, Transportation Secretariat, FCTA, told journalists after the exercise that the motorcycles were impounded for violating traffic rules. Chinedum explained that the crushing exercise was backed by a regulation of the FCT Administration, […]
some of the seized motorcycles being crushed
The Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS), Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Tuesday, crushed 601 impounded motorcycles.
Dr Elechi Chinedum, Mandate Secretary, Transportation Secretariat, FCTA, told journalists after the exercise that the motorcycles were impounded for violating traffic rules.
Chinedum explained that the crushing exercise was backed by a regulation of the FCT Administration, which prohibited commercial motorcycles from operating in certain areas of the FCT. He added that the law empowered the FCTA and its directorate to impound and crush any commercial motorcycle found flaunting the provisions of the law.
“There is nothing we can do apart from enforcing the law.
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“What we do is to try as much as possible to enforce the regulation and not to punish anybody.
He advised residents against operating commercial motorcycles in prohibited areas saying, “if we catch you, we will impound it and crush it”.
Earlier, the DRTS Director, Dr Abdulateef Bello, said that the essence of the exercise was to curtail traffic abuses in the territory.