FOLLOWING Monday’s multiple violent acts by Hausa-speaking okada riders in Lagos State, there is growing apprehension that there might be terrorist cells among commercial motorcyclists in states outside the north. Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, asked residents of the state to calm down. Same year, however, the state police command confirmed the coordinated killing, in broad daylight, of an Edo State-born Lagos-based businessman, Yamah Usman, in Elepe, Ikorodu, by okada riders of Northern extraction. The first rider had a tear gas [canister] and a knife on him and another okada rider had a pistol. In a viral three-minutes-andsix-seconds video, the riotous okada riders were seen vandalising vehicles parked in front of the school’s gate, smashing their windscreen and battering the body parts.

Source: Nigerian Tribune May 01, 2021 05:26 UTC