{"id":80393,"date":"2025-12-17T05:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80393"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:31:06","slug":"yuletide-reps-urge-igp-to-deploy-police-on-abuja-lokoja-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/17\/yuletide-reps-urge-igp-to-deploy-police-on-abuja-lokoja-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuletide: Reps Urge IGP to Deploy Police on Abuja-Lokoja Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to deploy adequate security personnel to identified hotspots along the Abuja-Lokoja expressway and other high-risk routes to ensure travellers\u2019 safety during the Yuletide season.<\/p>\n<p>The House also urged the Federal Ministry of Works to reopen sections of the Gwagwalada-Abaji-Kotonkarfe-Lokoja road currently closed to traffic to ease congestion and improve movement during the Christmas period.<\/p>\n<p>The resolutions followed the adoption of an urgent motion sponsored by Hon. Danladi Aguye, who described the Abuja-Lokoja highway as a critical economic corridor linking the FCT with the North-Central and other regions of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Aguye said the road, which facilitates the movement of goods, petroleum products and agricultural produce, has deteriorated due to erosion, flooding and poor maintenance, leading to frequent crashes, traffic gridlock and increased insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>In adopting the motion, the House urged the Ministry of Works to expedite rehabilitation on the Abaji-Kotonkarfe-Lokoja axis and called on the Federal Road Safety Corps to intensify traffic control to reduce accidents.<\/p>\n<p>An amendment moved by Hon. Amobi Ogah further urged that the full rehabilitation and expansion of the highway be captured in the national budget, while the Committee on Legislative Compliance was mandated to ensure implementation of the resolutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The House of Representatives has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to deploy adequate security personnel to identified hotspots along the Abuja-Lokoja expressway and other high-risk routes to ensure travellers\u2019 safety during the Yuletide season. The House also urged the Federal Ministry of Works to reopen sections of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80393","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\/80393","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80395,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80393\/revisions\/80395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}