Police reads riot act to Abuja residents over Airport Road unrest
The police have warned residents to abstain from burning of tires on tarred roads.
This warning is coming on the heels of an unrest that broke out among some aggrieved commercial motorcycle operators protesting against the impounding of their motorcycles by the task force of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration along the Airport Express Road near Gosa market in Abuja on Monday.
Earlier on Monday, some youths had blocked the Airport Road when the incident took place.
It took the intervention of the security operatives to restore normalcy to the area.
Meanwhile, In a statement signed by Josephine Adeh, the force Public Relations Officer of, FCT Command the Commissioner of Police, Babaji Sunday noted that the incident which soon attracted many false narratives was merely an uncultured display of dissatisfaction by commercial Motorcycle riders popularly called Okada.
According to the Sunday, the motorcyclists took to the streets burning tires and other substances following the activities of the Task Force, who had earlier confiscated some motorcycles for certain violations.
