The Ministerial Taskforce on City Sanitation of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has shut Jikwoyi phase II intersection, causing a major traffic jam on the already congested road.
After the junction was sealed on Tuesday, Comrade Ikharo Attah, the Taskforce’s commander and the FCT Minister’s Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection, and Enforcement, told reporters that the decision was made to facilitate free flow of traffic on the axis.
According to the Minister’s orders, Attah visited the Karu-Jikwoyi route with a group of stakeholders about two weeks ago in order to relieve traffic congestion caused by unorthodox 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 Attah: “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 grilock 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”
Attah said all the vehicles that ply the road or would be plying the road will go to the Celestial Church junction to turn, saying the area was better for U-turn.
