BAN OF BIKE IN LAGOS STATE
Onyebuchi Odianjo
The motorcycle popularly known as Okada in Nigeria has been banned from operation in Lagos state. In some parts of the city such as the Surulere axis, some members of the Lagos State Task Force on Enforcement of Road Traffic Laws were spotted seizing bikes and arresting its owners.
Some members of the public had some reservations about the event as it posed some challenges. Some residents in Surulere had this to say: “It’s so sad they had to deny these poor people a means of earning a living, if there were jobs in Nigeria, would some be riding bikes!?” Another said: “This is one of the worst things to happen to a worker in the morning! I’m so late for work! Only Okada can get me to work and just look! I am still in one spot!”
Although the ban was announced recently in October by the Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force on Enforcement of Road Traffic Laws Olayinka Egbeyemi, some bikes kept operating on the streets until recently the ban seize got rekindled.
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