Commercial motorcyclists in many parts of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), yesterday, attacked and threw stones at members of a joint task force appointed by the FCT minister, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike. 
 
The attack was in protest against the seizure of their motorcycles and prevent the task force from crushing them. The Joint task force comprising officers of the Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS), Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Department of State Service (DSS), and the military, immediately l, repelled the protesters with shots of teargas canisters. 
  
The Guardian gathered that over 470 motorcycles were impounded in an exercise that started from the popular car wash Bus Stop in Lugbe, through Gosa, Bill Clinton drive, Trademore estate, Lugbe junction as well as the Kubwa and its environs. 
 
Addressing newsmen before the seized motorcycles were crushed at Area 1 Round about, the Secretary, Transportation Secretariat, Nya Ubokutom, warned commercial motorcyclists to limit their operations to the areas designated for them. 
 
He explained that FCT administration’s desire to develop a smart city devoid of all sorts of pollution cannot be achieved if illegalities are allowed to pervade the FCT. 

Director, FCT DRTS,  Abdulateef Bello, said apart from the city centre, commercial motorcyclists are not allowed to operate on any of the territory’s highways, noting that the administration is determined to rid the entire FCT roads of okada operators.  
 
He said one of the strategies to be deployed towards eliminating commercial motorcyclists from FCT roads is arresting passengers who patronise the business. Many  untargeted residents sustained injuries during the exercise due to panic.