{"id":73472,"date":"2025-08-18T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73472"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:10:41","slug":"frsc-blames-driver-impatience-for-lokoja-abuja-highway-gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/18\/frsc-blames-driver-impatience-for-lokoja-abuja-highway-gridlock\/","title":{"rendered":"FRSC Blames Driver Impatience for Lokoja-Abuja Highway Gridlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Motorists on the Abuja-Lokoja highway have been trapped in a massive gridlock, which the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has attributed to driver impatience and poor cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>The congestion, which began on Sunday, stretches from Ogbobo\/Ozi to the Murtala Mohammed Bridge at Koton-Karfe, Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p>Kogi State FRSC Sector Commander, Kumar Tsukwam, said the situation was compounded by ongoing road construction and several broken-down vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>However, he stressed that many motorists worsened the traffic by driving against oncoming vehicles, describing the act as \u201csad and unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The standstill has caused untold hardship for commuters. A driver, Mohammed Yusuf, recounted spending nine hours on the journey from Abuja to Lokoja, which ordinarily takes a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI left Abuja before 3 pm on Sunday and arrived in Lokoja by midnight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another traveler, Christopher Adamu, said he was stranded on the road overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond frustration, the delays are taking a financial toll, with drivers burning scarce and costly fuel while idling in traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Commuters are now calling on authorities to adopt decisive measures to ease the logjam and restore free movement along the busy route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Motorists on the Abuja-Lokoja highway have been trapped in a massive gridlock, which the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has attributed to driver impatience and poor cooperation. The congestion, which began on Sunday, stretches from Ogbobo\/Ozi to the Murtala Mohammed Bridge at Koton-Karfe, Kogi State. Kogi State FRSC Sector Commander, Kumar Tsukwam, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73472","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\/73472","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73474,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73472\/revisions\/73474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}