....Reads riot act to security personnel

is allowed to park or ply on undesignated area, along this Airport Road, no passenger should stand and flag a vehicle to pick him or her except is an area designated for such.

Flagging off the exercise yesterday, AMMC Coordinator, Umar Shuaibu, said the exercise, which is going to be continuous, had commenced with sensitisation of the public and engagement with the transport operators along the busy road.

Shuaibu disclosed that there enough lay-bays along the road, sufficient to serve the public, but what is lacking is discipline, in order to make out environment decent.

He said: “We engaged the stakeholders, which are transport operators along this road. We called them, and we have all agreed that this assignment is important, in order to make sure that sanity is restored.

“Whatever image you see on Abuja Airport Road, is the image of Nigeria. If the traffic along the Airport Road is free, Nigeria traffic is free; and if the Airport Road is clean, Nigeria is clean. So we must make sure that it is clean and free always, in order to have a very good image of our country.

“Secondly, the Airport road is the one that conveys traffic from the north and south along Kaduna-Lokoja expressway, so it has multiple roles. That’s why the traffic along this road is heavy.

“We are aware that most of these violations are committed by people in uniform. So no matter your rank, enforcement against the violation is not a respecter of rank. We will make sure that we show example. If you are a man in uniform show example to people that are not in uniform. So anybody, no matter how highly placed, must respect our regulations.

“Henceforth, anybody that is making the Airport Road unsafe and unclean, is going to be arrested. From now on, this exercise is going to be continuous.the officers in charge of this enforcement, we count on you. We need your support, in order to make it work.”

On his part, Deputy National President, Chief Abubakar Sadiq, Road Transport Employers Union, who described the exercise as a welcome development, said they are quite ready to cooperate in any form, to make sure that it is successful.