PRESS RELEASE;FCT MINISTER COMMENDS TASK TEAM ON TRAFFIC DECONGESTION ALONG AYA/NYANYA ROAD ...AS CHAIRMAN HARPS ON SUSTAINABILITY

The Honourable Minister, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Malam 

Muhammad Musa Bello, has commended the Special Ministerial Task 

Team on Traffic Decongestion along AYA/Nyanya for delivering on its 

mandate of decongesting traffic on that road axis within a very short 

time frame.

The Minister made the commendation when he received the interim report 

of the activities of the Task Team in his office. Speaking further, he said that 

his conviction that the affairs of  Nigeria can be changed for the better has 

been buttressed by the zeal and dedication the Task Team put into the 

assignment and the result it achieved in record time.

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He stressed that the problems of managing the FCT are from within and these

 can be fixed with and by dedicated people who will put in their best and

 be committed to make the difference. He assured that all the recommendations

 made by the Task Team will be implemented.

In the words of the Minister,  “The conviction of our dear President that if we all

 put in our best we can change this country, and this has been clearly 

demonstrated by your well-coordinated team. It shows you also that all the

 solutions to all our problems are actually within us, it’s just a matter of everybody

 being dedicated, putting in their best”.

He then advised that there was a need for coordinated and concerted efforts by all 

stakeholders for things to work. He continued “… one tree cannot make a forest

 and you cannot survive if you are just an island. So you have to relate with 

people around you, relate with relevant officers and at the end of the day if we all

 do that, Nigeria is going to be better”

In his presentation , the Chairman of the Task Team, Mr Ikharo Attah

 emphasized that there was a need to sustain efforts to check the excesses 

of motorists, as even the current  expansion work by the Federal Government

 on that road will not make a difference if this was not done.

According to Mr Attah one of such excesses was the unwillingness of  uniformed

 personnel to obey traffic rules and comply with road traffic directives. He also 

said that many drivers lacked lane discipline and exhibited arrogance while

 driving with little consideration for the rights of other road users. He also 

explained that traffic clogging at the Nasarawa State axis of the road made it

 difficult for the Team to manage traffic. He therefore reiterated that the FRSC should be involved

 in the simultaneous control of traffic in Nasarawa State and the FCT.

Recommendations made by the Team include a total stoppage of roadside 

trading, concerted enlightenment campaign for uniformed personnel and

 immediate fixing of potholes along the road that hinder the free flow of traffic.

It would be recalled that the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello

 had inaugurated the Task Team two weeks ago with a  mandate to clear 

the traffic gridlock and ensure free flow of traffic along the AYA/Nyanya 

road as part of measures by the Administration to ease the discomfort of

 motorists who ply that route on a daily basis.

ANTHONY OGUNLEYE
CHIEF PRESS SECRETARY
04/10/2019
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