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FCTA: Park and Pay policy set for reintroduction from May

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Published: April 14, 2021
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The Federal Capital Territory Administration has concluded arrangements to re-introduce ‘park and pay’ policy on May 1 to curtail the rate of wrong parking in the city, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

The Acting Secretary of the FCTA, Transport Secretariat, Malam Usman Yahaya, gave the hint at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja.

Yahaya said that the historic plan to re-introduce the ‘on-street parking policy’ in the territory was part of efforts to free the streets for better traffic flows.

NAN reported that the ‘On Street Parking Management’ initially saddled with the responsibility of collection of fines from violators was suspended on April 14, 2014.

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The development was in compliance with the FCT High Court ruling that declared the operation illegal.

Yahaya said that prior to the judgment, the scheme was riddled with so much complaints.

He said that the operators were variously accused of many underhand activities ranging from unprincipled, dubious, deceitful, unprofessional and unscrupulous acts.

Yahaya said, “It was based on these shortcomings that the Suntrust Savings and Loans Limited challenged the powers of the FCTA to impose levies on motorists that park their cars on FCT streets.

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“Justice Peter Affen in his judgment commended and described the ‘park and pay scheme’, which was introduced for the purpose of effective traffic management as laudable but ruled that the scheme was unknown to the FCT laws.

“He blamed the authorities for not backing the scheme with adequate laws.”

According to him, investigations from both the authority and the public revealed that the activities of the ticketing clerks contributed in no small way to the public disdain for the scheme.

He said that ticketing clerks were variously accused of intentionally making themselves unavailable whenever motorists were in need of their service.

The acting secretary frowned on the clamping and towing of vehicles that later became the order of the day, which according to him, informed the jubilant reactions of the public when the court suspended the scheme.

He however assured the public that the licensed operators that would begin the implementation of the policy on the date were now repentant with a promise to serve residents well.

On his part, the Director, FCT Directorate of Road Traffic Services, Malam Wadata Bodinga, also promised that parking lots would henceforth be provided, while the fine collectors would be subjected to training and retraining.

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