The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has cancelled all contracts it has with taxi ranks and other bus terminal operators.
The Mandate Secretary, Transportation Secretariat, FCTA, Mr Ubokutom Nyah, announced this Friday after a stakeholders’ meeting with terminals and taxi ranks managers in Abuja.
He said, “We must rid Abuja of all these. I have gone round the taxi ranks, and of all the places I visited, not one is worthy to be called even a village motor park.”
According to him, the action was not meant to punish them but to reposition the sector, bring new terms of engagement and provide the federal capital with modern taxi ranks and terminals.
He also ordered that the operators to vacate the places and hand them over to the administration’s transportation Secretariat within three months.
He stated that the FCT Administration was ready to rehabilitate and revamp taxi ranks including the
terminals to the standard befitting the Federal Capital Territory.
The Secretary stated that his visit to some of the taxi ranks, bus terminals and illegal motor parks in the company of the Management Team of the Secretariat afforded him the opportunity to have first hand information of the ugly state of the facilities.
He maintained that Abuja, being the Federal Capital City deserves more than what it presently has.
The Secretary, however, assured that the Administration will still consider the present operators that have the capacity to develop the facilities in line with the new vision.
The Secretary decried the infiltration of illegal motor parks within the City and expressed the readiness of the Administration to provide Abuja with befitting taxi ranks and terminals.
Nya noted that the state of the bus terminals, taxi ranks and illegal motor parks in the City were such that attract crimes and criminalities
