FCTA Extends Okada Ban To Additional Areas

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has extended the ban of operations of commercial motorcyclists and tricycles to some new areas in the FCT.

This was disclosed in a statement by the Deputy Director, Information, Ughamadu Ifeanyi.

Ifeanyi named the areas as Guzape District comprising AYA, Asokoro, Apo Roundabout and Area One; Jahi District comprising Next Cash and Carry area to Kubwa Express Way and Life Camp Express Way and Gudu District comprising Garki 2, Apo Legislative Quarters, Area 10, Police Command.

The others are Gishiri comprising opposite Nicon Junction, Mabushi and Next Cash and Carry area; Dakibiyu comprising Jabi motor Park and surrounding areas and Galadimawa District comprising from Galadimawa Roundabout through Games Village to Area One, Jabi by Judicial Institute, Federal Medical Centre, Dantata Bridge.

The rest are Apo NEPA comprising NEPA to Cemetery Roundabout, to Gudu Cemetery and to Apo Resettlement; Maitama Extension Comprising Towards Mpape and Katampe Extension; and Kugbo/Karu Junctions comprising Asokoro, Asokoro Police Command and AYA.

Kafe District, Godab Estate, Brains and Hammers, ACO Estate, Paradise Estate, Kafe Garden Estate, Sunshine Estate, etc. comprising Life camp and environs which were given partial ban because of large concentration of estates in the areas.

The statement noted that the ban was necessitated by the continued lawlessness exhibited by Motorcycle and Tricycle Operators in the Federal Capital Territory where they have metamorphosed from constituting traffic nuisance to becoming security threat.

According to Ughamadu, the Transportation Secretariat has communicated the new areas captured in the ban to all the Unions coordinating Tricycle and Commercial Motorcycle operators in the Territory and presented to them the new areas to be added to the enforcement list of Okada ban in the Federal Capital City.