{"id":3183,"date":"2023-10-13T08:32:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T08:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2023-10-13T08:32:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T08:32:18","slug":"prosecute-traffic-offenders-in-abuja-reps-urge-fct-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/10\/13\/prosecute-traffic-offenders-in-abuja-reps-urge-fct-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecute Traffic Offenders in Abuja, Reps Urge FCT Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Idowu Patrick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives has demanded that anyone who disobeys traffic light signals and other traffic laws be tracked and charged in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The House encouraged the Federal Capital Territory Administration to put into effect technologies that would allow it to track and detain anyone who violated traffic laws within the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To ensure compliance, it gave the Federal Capital Territory and the committee on the Federal Road Safety Commission specific instructions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These resolutions followed the adoption of a motion titled, \u201cCompelling Road Users to Obey Traffic Light Signals and Road Traffic Regulations in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja\u201d moved by Igariwey Enwo, during Thursday\u2019s plenary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The House was worried that by refusing or failing to observe traffic signs, drivers in the Federal Capital Territory pose a risk to other road users rather than controlling traffic flow and preventing accidents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It also stated that VIP cars, bullion vans, motorcyclists, dispatch riders, tricyclists, and taxi cab vehicles are the worst offenders of traffic control light signals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The National Bureau of Statistics data showing that the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, now has the highest rate of car accidents in Nigeria alarmed the House.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, technology is used in the majority of jurisdictions to find and detain people who break traffic laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idowu Patrick &nbsp; The House of Representatives has demanded that anyone who disobeys traffic light signals and other traffic laws be tracked and charged in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, &nbsp; The House encouraged the Federal Capital Territory Administration to put into effect technologies that would allow it to track and detain anyone who violated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}