Motorcyclists accuse police of harassment, extortion, theft Nigerians mondaythoughts
Motorcyclists plying Oke Ira from Shonola Street junction opposite Excellence Hotel, Aguda, in the Ogba area of Lagos State, have lamented their alleged harassment and extortion by the police.that while waiting to pick passengers, the police usually emerge in minibuses and push them off their motorcycles which they take to their stations in Ogba and Agege.
“The police just collected my motorcycle. They pushed me down from the motorcycle and took it away. I don’t know which police station they took it to. I just came out from the house; I have not even made a kobo,” he said. Adams added that the motorcyclists had been going through tough times, as many of them had been arrested by the police.
“After the commotion, we will go to Alausa and will not see the motorcycles there, or in Area ‘G’ in Ogba and Pen Cinema. We also go to other police stations, but we don’t often get to see the motorcycles. This happens daily.”
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