Anambra Traffic Management Agency, ATMA impounds vehicles in Onitsha, moves vehicles to Urban Terminal Park
www.odogwublog.com reports that the Anambra
Traffic Management Agency, ATMA, has impounded several vehicles believed to be
obstructing traffic in Onitsha, and some long vehicles stationed along
Obodoukwu Road, Okpoko, in Ogbaru causing traffic jam were directed to leave
the area.
The vehicle drivers were told to move into Urban
Terminal One Park located in Upper Iweka which was provided by the state
government, even as the Chief Executive officer, ATMA, Mr. Chris Uzoechina, has
restated its commitment to ensuring free flow of traffic in the state.
He said the Agency embarked on a decongestion along
Onitsha highways to monitor traffic flow within the area.
Mr Uzoechina, said that the measure is to drive home
the need to free roadsides and motorways in the state of traffic congestion,
envisioned by Governor Willie Obiano
The ATMA boss who noted that the exercise will be
continuous until the compliance becomes absolute, charged all vehicle owners to
exploit the security situations in Anambra state and make life easy for the
people.
Shortly after freeing Owerri Road Onitsha of
congestion, a DAF lorry loaded with notebooks skidded and fell along the area
where human and vehicular traffic was concentrated before the ATMA clearing.
Reacting to the incident, Mr Uzoechina explained that
lives would have been lost if not that the Agency forced petty traders and bus
drivers to evacuate the vicinity,
On his Part, an eyewitness of the incident, Mr Kennedy
Mbanefo, appreciated the efforts of the Nigerian Police Force for arriving
immediately and securing the goods, and called on government to
reconstruct Onitsha-Owerri express road.
The exercise was jointly carried out with members of
Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra, OCHA Brigade.
Anambra Traffic Management Agency, ATMA impounds vehicles in Onitsha, moves vehicles to Urban Terminal Park
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