On Tuesday, the FCT Administration's (FCTA) Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS) confiscated at least 20 rickety cars, 10 tricycles, and 15 motorcycles and threatened to crush them.

During the raid, its Head of Operations, Mrs Deborah Osho, told reporters that the owners of the automobiles will also face legal actions.

She warned that they might face legal action for operating in unsafe vehicles, parking illegally, or infringing the statute prohibiting the use of commercial motorbikes and tricycles.

She added that the raid was carried out to keep the city clean and get rid of illegal motor parks, rickety vehicles that weren't fit for the road, tricycles, and motorcyclists.

“The main goal is to keep the city clean and free of rickety vehicles littering the streets of the capital city.

“Most of the commercial taxis, motorcycles and tricycles constituted a nuisance in the nation’s capital city. This is unacceptable.

“We are doing everything we can to address the problem and we will continue to clamp down on all rickety vehicles and taxis operating illegal parks around the city,” she stressed.

Osho asked drivers in the FCT to obey the law and observe all traffic laws in order to maintain safe roads, a clean city, and sanity in the nation's capital.

It will increase security, according to Mr Peter Olumuji, Secretary, Command and Control, FCTA Taskforce imposing sanity in the city, to purge the city of all forms of illegality.

In cooperation with security agencies, Olumuji stated that the DRTS would continue to pursue owners of illegal motor parks, drivers of shaky cars, and owners of commercial tricycles and motorcycles.