By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
The FCT Directorate of Road Transport Service, DRTS, has dragged the owners of 70 rickey vehicles and 120 tricycles to a mobile court for various traffic offenses within the territory.
The DRTS Director, Dr. Abdulateef Bello, made this known when he took journalists round to view the impounded rickey vehicles and tricycles on Wednesday , in Abuja.
He said , “This is in continuation of our routine enforcement to rid the FCT of rickety vehicles and to equally get other traffic violators punished.”
“Today we have the mobile court in session to try some drivers of rickety vehicles that have committed several traffic violations in June.”
“We have well 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.”
Furthermore , the DRTS Director said, “The motorists and tricyclics will be fined, and they will be warned, 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 be made to face the mobile court.”
He said that most of the vehicles impounded from January to June for various traffic offenses did not get back on the road because of the nature of the rot.
He added that those that were fairly well-paid the fine as prescribed by the mobile court.
Head of Operations, DRTS, Mrs. Deborah Osho, Head of Operations, said that some impounded vehicles beside being rickety, do not have windscreen, while others do not have a window screen among other things.
