Banning of okada wiil bring about sanity in FCT roads, says FRSC

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) says putting an aggregate ban on business cruisers or "Okada" in the FCT will guarantee rational soundness and activity security in the region.

Mrs Susan Ajenge, FCT Sector Commander of FRSC expressed this in a meeting with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja.

"The ban of Okada inside of the downtown area has definitely decreased the rate of mischances in the range, consequently the need to extend the ban to the whole region for better result.

"Prior to the ban of Okada in the downtown area, clinics and crisis wards were constantly loaded with Okada mishaps' casualties, same with funeral homes, however this has radically lessened as aftereffect of the ban.

"The same ban ought to be reached out to all aspects of the domain so that wellbeing and rational soundness can be accomplished in those satellite towns that they work.

"Individuals dependably ponder hardship on overall population however the inconveniences exceed the points of interest.

"Aggregate ban on Okada won't execute anybody however will give more secure streets while the general population will be made to disparage different method for transportation that are more secure.

"At FRSC, we are trying our hardest to secure movement violators among the business motorcyclists in the region yet the more we capture, the more the quantity of violators.

"We capture more than 20 business motorcyclists on regular routine however they continue infringing the parkways and bringing on deadly mischances by riding imprudently on the streets," she said.

The administrator focused on the requirement for the FCT organization to consider aggregate ban of Okada on its streets to lessen the rate of mischances in the domain definitely.

In a comparative improvement, she exhorted drivers to abstain from blocking streets and passages while on the line to purchase fuel at the filling stations.

She said that officers of the summon and other sister organizations were moving round to guarantee rational soundness at filling stations while the lines kept going.

The business motorcyclists in the FCT, disregarding the ban, work and damage activity leads by infringing on walkways and jeopardizing lives by driving against movement.

The practice is basic along Kubwa, Lugbe, Kuje and other satellite towns in the FCT, which now and again bring about executing or injuring other street clients. (NAN)