Every commercial vehicles operating in Abuja will be profiled as from January 2025, Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike said on Thursday.
Wike also hinted that only coloured and profiled vehicles would be allowed for security reasons.
He said: “Let it be known that effective from January 2025, any commercial bus not duly profiled by security agencies won’t be allowed to operate within the nation’s capital.
“Most of the Keke Napep and most of the motorcycles are informants. Everybody here that is a beneficiary is being profiled by the security. And so, what we are coming up with is that from January next year, there will be nobody that will operate as a taxi driver or a bus driver without having approval from security, with security profiling you and without going about with the Abuja colour. Nothing like using any vehicle on the road. No, we won’t allow that. From January, we won’t allow that.
“We will take the vehicle number, name of the drivers and the rest so everybody will have confidence that this is the vehicle I’m entering in case anything happens. We must follow rules and regulations and do the right thing”.
