The Federal Capital Territory Administration has stopped personnel of the Directorate of Road Traffic Services from inspecting vehicle particulars on roads in the city before 10am.

This is part of measure to ease traffic flow at peak periods in the city.

However, the Administration insisted that there was no going back on its earlier decision to restrict the movement of heavy duty vehicles in the territory to off-peak periods, warning of severe sanctions for violators.

The Chairman of FCT Ministerial Taskteam on Traffic Management, Ikharo Attah, who announced this in a statement Monday in Abuja, explained that the decision was borne out of complaints from residents of the city that the checking of vehicles from 9am had compounded the traffic snarl in the territory and led to loss of man hours.

He however warned that the shift in the commencement of vehicles inspection time is not a licence for drivers of rickety vehicles to flood the city in the morning.

The statement said, “By this, the road traffic officers of various agencies must focus on freeing traffic from 5am to 10am in the morning. They are to commence checking of vehicles and their particulars from 10am across the city.

“The enforcement does not affect the stopping and arrest of heavy duty vehicles driving during peak traffic periods. Any such vehicle must be stopped from plying the road in accordance with approved policy to avert fatal road crashes occasioned by break failures usually associated with such heavy duty vehicles.”

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The chairman dismissed reports that traffic officials were causing traffic congestion by checking vehicle particulars in the evenings on the Abuja-Keffi road.

He added that traffic officers on evening duties were not checking documents but positioned to sustain a free flow of traffic.