For the fourth time within a space of three weeks, motorcycle operators popularly called Okada riders took to the streets to protest the decision of Lagos State government to ban their operation on the high ways in Lagos State with effect from December 31.

The spate of violence in Lagos took another dimension penultimate Thursday when street urchins popularly called Area Boys operating in the Mile Twelve area of Kosofe Local Council Development Area LCDA, engaged officers of the Nigerian Police in a shoot out that left several people injured while goods and property estimated at millions of Naira, were carted away.

THEY did not see it coming. All they wanted was to beat the heavy traffic on the deplorable Rumuolumeni Road. Because of the bad state of the road, vehicles sometimes could be trapped at a spot for close to an hour. Peak periods on the road are in the mornings when workers and students go out and in the evenings when they are on their way back home.

The Christian community in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, has called on the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola to disregard any opposition to the construction of the Ejigbo-Ajao Link Bridge and ensure that the bridge is completed on time.

The hellish experience businessmen and other commuters plying the ever-busy Mile Two – Seme Road go through on daily basis, cannot be blamed on the deathtrap nature of the trans-boarder road alone. The numerous road blocks mounted by security agents on the road, ostensibly to nab…