The Directorate of Street Site visitors Providers, DRTS, within the Federal Capital Terrritory, FCT, says its Particular Job Workforce impounded 1,408 motor autos, 3,712 business bikes and 1,112 tricycles between January and December 2023.
DRTS Head of Public Relations and Enlightenment, Kalu Emetu, stated the three,712 business bikes impounded have been crushed whereas a few of the autos had been launched to their house owners after cost of fines and effecting needed repairs.
He stated that the company generated greater than N127.541 million in 2023 from fines paid into authorities coffers by house owners of impounded autos and tricycles.
Emetu defined that motor autos impounded that had been not highway worthy had been often unbundled into scrap and handed over to their house owners, to forestall them from being put again on the highway.
He defined that destruction of the bikes and autos was in step with the FCT regulation on the ban on business bikes and unworthy autos throughout the metropolis.
The spokesman added that by legislation, all of the bikes impounded for violating visitors guidelines had been routinely forfeited to the federal government.
A breakdown of the figures confirmed that 217 autos, 836 business bikes, and 298 tricycles had been impounded between January and March 2023 throughout the FCT.
The DRTS additionally impounded 270 autos, 964 bikes, and 268 tricycles within the second quarter of the yr underneath assessment, whereas 482 autos, 931 bikes, and 353 tricycles had been impounded from July to September.
Within the final quarter of the yr, the DRTS knowledge indicated that 425 autos, 832 business bikes and 186 tricycles had been intercepted within the territory for varied offenses.
