By Daniel Tyokua
Despite attack on officials of FCT Administration by some commercial motorcycle operators at Lugbe on Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport road corridor, the team arrested over 100 okada for traffic violations.
The offences include driving against traffic, driving on the express road and constituting security threat.
Trouble ensued during the enforcement when some okada riders mobilized themselves and started shooting at the joint taskforce team to avert arrest.
Speaking on the exercise, Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to the Minister of FCT, Ikharo Attah, said:”We came for removal of okada on Airport corridor, the Minister of FCT, Malam Muhammad Bello has given a matching order that okada should be removed because they are not allowed to ply the main road.
“We find okada heavily driving against traffic at the express way, contravening traffic rules, we find them behaving unruly, we find them hurting people here so we came to remove them on the Airport road.
“There was a massive clampdown of okadas, we impounded over 100 today.
“For us attack is a regular thing, we are used to being attacked we have been attacked severally, before the joint taskforce came on board the security men have always been under attack by these okada riders, it is a regular thing here.
“But my message is that they should stop driving against the traffic because when we see them we are going to seize it. All the okada impounded today, we will go through the court process and we are going to crush them”.
