The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on has arraigned 34 traffic offenders in a mobile court as intensive enforcement of traffic rules begins in the city.
The director, FCT Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS), Wadata Bodinga told journalists in Abuja on Monday that the enforcement would continue until motorists complied with traffic regulations.
Bodinga said fines ranging from N30,000 to N40, 000 were imposed on the offenders, after subjecting them to psychiatric test before their trial at the FCT Mobile Court.
“We started the operation on Ahmadu Bello Way and transcended to Gwarimpa and Gudu. Our personnel have been stations on all the intersections where some traffic lights are not working to ensure traffic control.
“The operation is basically successful with some little challenges that have to do with the people resisting arrest. But 34 cases were referred to the mobile court and were fined after they were found guilty and about 16 cases are being evaluated.
Speaking in the vein, Jumai Ahmadu, acting director, FCT Reform Coordination and Service Improvement, said the operation was informed by a matching order from a higher authority.
Ahmadu stated the FCT minister, minister of state and permanent secretary took the assignment seriously and urged FCT residents to always be law abiding by obeying traffic law, adding that the faces of offenders would be exposed through the media
“It doesn’t matter who you are once you are arrested you will be subjected to psychiatric test and be made to faced the law. Because no normal human being will beat traffic. So we need to check the state of mental stability and when that is done you now face the law and offenders will pay for their mental evaluation”, she noted.
Also, chairman of the FCT Ministerial Task Team on Traffic Control, Ihkaro Attah who cautioned against reckless driving, restated the commitment of the FCT administration to ensure free vehicular and human movement in the city.
