Okada ban: Lagos must be resolute
The coming into effect on Saturday, February 1, of the Lagos state government ban on Okada motorcycles and tricycles in six local government areas, major highways and bridges signals a new dawn in transportation sanity in metropolitan Lagos.
Motorists are not spared the lawlessness and violence of Okada riders. If an accident involves an Okada rider and a motorist, Okada herds would descend on the motorist in physical assault, sometime leading to death, even where the Okada rider is in the wrong. Before now, successive governments in Lagos State have made efforts to tame the wild ways of these Okada riders but politics and lack of will power had stood in the way of resolute enforcement. This seems to have engendered in the riders a feeling that they are untouchables.
You want to ask: How can a state government be prevented from knowing details of people living within its territory? One often wonders – those millions of people daily streaming about in metropolitan Lagos, where do they sleep at night? A state government has a right to know.
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