The Directorate of Road Transport Service (DRTS), Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has dragged the owners of some rickety vehicles and tricycles before a mobile court in Abuja, for alleged traffic violations.
DRTS Director, Dr Abdulateef Bello, made this known while taking journalists round the 70 impounded rickety vehicles and 120 tricycles, in Abuja on Wednesday.
“Today we have the mobile court in session to try some of the drivers of rickety vehicles that committed a number of traffic violations in June.
“We have over 70 rickety vehicles brought before the mobile court today and over 120 tricycles that have committed violations against their approved routes in the FCT.
“This, we will continue to do until we get every motor vehicle and every operator to abide by FCT traffic rules and regulations.
“If found guilty, the motorists will be fined. The idea is to use court to deter and to regulate,” he said.
Bello further said that the motorists and tricyclists would be fined and warned before being set free.
“But if a driver is a serial offender, we will look at other stiffer punishments aside from the fine.
“If the motorists don’t learn to obey our traffic rules, we will continue to impound, arrest and the offender be made to face the mobile court.
“This is in continuation of our routine enforcement to rid the FCT of rickety vehicles and to equally get other traffic violators punished.”
Bello said that most of the vehicles impounded from January to June for various traffic offences were not allowed to get back on the road because of the nature of their rot.
He added that those that were fairly good paid fine as prescribed by the mobile court.
Also, Mrs Deborah Osho, Head of Operations, said that apart from being rickety, some of the impounded vehicles do not have windscreen, and trafficators, while others do not have window screens among other things. (NAN)
By Philip Yatai
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