{"id":80684,"date":"2025-12-21T15:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80684"},"modified":"2025-12-21T15:42:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:42:01","slug":"frsc-deploys-personnel-tow-trucks-to-clear-abuja-lokoja-gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/21\/frsc-deploys-personnel-tow-trucks-to-clear-abuja-lokoja-gridlock\/","title":{"rendered":"FRSC Deploys Personnel, Tow Trucks to Clear Abuja-Lokoja Gridlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has deployed additional personnel and tow trucks along the Abuja-Lokoja highway to ease severe traffic congestion that has left motorists stranded for days ahead of Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, FRSC spokesperson Olusegun Ogungbemide said the deployment followed a directive by Corps Marshal Shehu Mohammed to decongest the road and promptly remove broken-down vehicles and other obstructions.<\/p>\n<p>The FRSC attributed the gridlock to heavy festive traffic, ongoing construction at several points along the route, and poor driving behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Ogungbemide said motorists driving against traffic and other acts of impatience have worsened the congestion.<\/p>\n<p>He urged road users to cooperate with officers on duty and obey traffic rules to improve traffic flow and ensure safety.<\/p>\n<p>The intervention comes amid reports that the congestion on the Lokoja\u2013Abuja corridor has persisted for about three days, with some motorists stranded since Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Immaculata The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has deployed additional personnel and tow trucks along the Abuja-Lokoja highway to ease severe traffic congestion that has left motorists stranded for days ahead of Christmas. In a statement on Sunday, FRSC spokesperson Olusegun Ogungbemide said the deployment followed a directive by Corps Marshal Shehu Mohammed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-80684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80684","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=80684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80686,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80684\/revisions\/80686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}