Road Worthiness : VIO To Crush Rickety Vehicles

The Directorate of Road Traffic Services, popularly known as ‘VIO’ is to crush over 130 impounded rickety vehicles that are not road worthy in the nation’s capital.

This was even as the FCTA plans to adopt Information Communication Technology, ICT, in carrying out the exercise.

Director, Directorate of Road Traffic Services, Dr Abdulateef Bello who made this known to Journalists in Abuja, explained that any vehicle that failed the road test would be crushed.

The VIO Boss added that the operations would continue until all rickety vehicles being used for criminality were removed from the city.

Bello also hinted that owners of some of the impounded vehicles would be dragged to face the mobile court to serve as deterrent to others.

“Some of the vehicles that are here; some of them will be made to face the mobile court. The mobile court will decide the kind of penalty that will be given to them. But there are some that definitely will not go back to the road. We are going to invite the owners. We will ask them to pick whatever is valuable in the vehicle, and the vehicle will be crushed,” Bello said.

According to the VIO Boss, vehicle owners arrested on crime basis in the guise of commercial operations, would be handed over to the police for prosecution.

“The idea is to ensure that we return the city back to sanity; to remove all traces of insecurity and then to ensure seamless traffic flow in the capital city.
This is an assignment that we have taken upon us in line with the vision of the current administration to guarantee zero tolerance to insecurity in the FCT. So, for the last two weeks under review, we have impounded over 130 vehicles”.

He added that efforts were on top gear to ensure that all taxi operators conduct their businesses in the taxi ranks, and not on the road corridors.

By Remi Johnson, Edited By Grace Namiji