Traffic jam: FCT Taskforce closes Jikwoyi phase II junction

By Stanley Onyekwere

In furtherance to its effort towards improving vehicular and human movement, the FCT Ministerial Taskforce on City Sanitation has closed Jikwoyi phase II junction that constitute a major traffic gridlock on  the ever busy road.

Addressing journalists after sealing the junction yesterday, head of the Taskforce and Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to the minister of FCT, Ikharo Attah said the action was to ease free flow of traffic on the axis.

Attah had about two weeks ago inspected  the Karu-Jikwoyi road with some stakeholders in line with the Minister’s directives to decongest the traffic jam that usually start from Nyanya, Karu, Jikwoyi – Kpegyi linking Karish town due to the unconventional activities.

He explained that FCT Administration was keen on ending the chaotic situation on the road, by removing  all the illegal structures built on the road shoulders on Karu-Jikwoyi road, especially the Jikwoyi phase II junction which motorists have converted to a bus stop that build up logjam.

According to him, sealing of the junction and planned pulling down of the illegal structures was meant to ease movement of vehicles and the residents that ply the route.

“Sealing of the Jikwoyi phase II today, is one of the measures that we have taken to ease free flow of traffic on the axis.

“We have identified the causes of the  traffic gridlock on Karu-Jikwoyi road, we will ensure that all the illegal structures built on the road shoulders are pulled down.

“The exercise is not meant to infringe pain on the people, is rather going to address the logjam that people have been experiencing and complaining,  strategic stakeholders are fully in support of the FCT Administration stance”, he stressed.