Abuja Authority cautions security personnel against violating traffic rules

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has cautioned security personnel against violating traffic rules in the nation’s capital.

The Coordinator of Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Umar Shuaibu, issued the warning during the inauguration of intensive traffic enforcement on the Airport Road.

Shuaibu declared that henceforth, anybody that was driving against the traffic would not only be instructed to go back but would be arrested and the vehicle impounded.

According to him, no vehicle is allowed to park or ply on an undesignated area, along this Airport Road, no passenger should stand and flag a vehicle to pick him or her up except in an area designated for such.

The Coordinator, further explained that the exercise, which is going to be continuous, had commenced with sensitisation of the public and engagement with the transport operators along the busy road.

“We engaged the stakeholders, which are transport operators along this road. We called them, and we have all agreed that this assignment is important, in order to make sure that sanity is restored.

“Whatever image you see on Abuja Airport Road, is the image of Nigeria. If the traffic along the Airport Road is free, Nigeria traffic is free; and if the Airport Road is clean, Nigeria is clean. So we must make sure that it is clean and free always, in order to have a very good image of our country. 

“Secondly, the Airport road is the one that conveys traffic from the north and south along the Kaduna-Lokoja expressway, so it has multiple roles. That’s why the traffic along this road is heavy. 

“We are aware that most of these violations are committed by people in uniform. So no matter your rank, enforcement against the violation is not a respecter of rank. We will make sure that we show examples. If you are a man in uniform show examples to people that are not in uniform. So anybody, no matter how highly placed, must respect our regulations.

“Henceforth, anybody that is making the Airport Road unsafe and unclean, is going to be arrested. From now on, this exercise is going to be continuous.the officers in charge of this enforcement,  we count on you. We need your support, in order to make it work.”

For his part, the Deputy National President of the Road Transport Employers Union, Abubakar Sadiq, who described the exercise as a welcome development, said they are quite ready to cooperate to make the exercise successful.

PIAK