These robbery attacks, which are very rampant around major bus stops, see the robbers descend en-mass on okadas, snatching bags and phones and zooming off into the night. Also, the task force raided okada riders at Toyota and Five-Star bus stops, impounding several motorcycles. Earlier this week, several were feared dead and many injured when okada riders and members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) were engaged in a deadly crash at the Ojo Local Government Area in Lagos. That same day, okada riders fiercely engaged Task Force and the police in the Lekki area of Lagos, disrupting normal activities as residents scampered for safety. Chairman, Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit, Shola Jejeloye (a Chief Superintendent of Police), speaking to The Guardian on telephone, decried the activities of the commercial motorcyclists (okadas) plying major highways and restricted routes and articulated vehicles parked indiscriminately on the highways.

Source: The Guardian May 01, 2021 03:21 UTC