{"id":81339,"date":"2026-01-09T08:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81339"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:09:40","slug":"abuja-police-impound-21-motorcycles-for-violating-restriction-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/09\/abuja-police-impound-21-motorcycles-for-violating-restriction-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Police Impound 21 Motorcycles for Violating Restriction Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has impounded 21 commercial motorcycles and arrested their riders for flouting the restriction on motorcycle operations along major roads and highways in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The enforcement exercise was carried out on Thursday, January 8, 2026, by a joint team of police operatives under Operation Sweep, alongside other security agencies and officials of the Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO).<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the operation, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, said the clampdown covered major corridors across the territory and targeted riders who defied the restriction order.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that the exercise forms part of ongoing efforts to curb traffic-related crimes, prevent the use of motorcycles for criminal activities, and enhance public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking, the Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, CP Miller Dantawaye, warned that continued violations would attract stiffer sanctions, adding that enforcement would be intensified across the six Area Councils of the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>The police urged residents to comply with traffic and security directives and report suspicious activities through the command\u2019s emergency lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Immaculata The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has impounded 21 commercial motorcycles and arrested their riders for flouting the restriction on motorcycle operations along major roads and highways in Abuja. The enforcement exercise was carried out on Thursday, January 8, 2026, by a joint team of police operatives under Operation Sweep, alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81339","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\/81339","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=81339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81341,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81339\/revisions\/81341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}