Okada riders storm Sanwo-Olu’s office, beg for suspension of ban
By Olasunkanmi Akoni Commercial motorcyclists, popularly called ‘Okada’ riders, numbering thousands, stormed Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, office of Governor Bababjide Sanwo-Olu, with a plea to suspend the ban on their activities in six Local Government Areas, LGAs, scheduled to commence on September 1, 2022, on Thursday, precisely. Recall as part of the on-going phase clampdown, […]
Okada ban: Taskforce nabs two fake uniform officers
By Olasunkanmi Akoni Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce) have arrested two suspects for impersonating security officers in Lagos. Chairman of the agency, Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, Olayinka Egbeyemi, disclosed that while one of the suspects, Monday Job, impersonated a Police Officer using his commercial motorcycle, popularly called […]
Fashola backs Sanwo-Olu on Okada ban
MINISTER of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN, yesterday, threw his weight behind the ban on commercial motorcycles by the Lagos State government. The former governor backed the action when he spoke at a public lecture organised by the United Action for Change, UAC, in Lagos. Fashola, who was a two-time governor of the […]
Fashola supports Okada ban, says it’s not part of Lagos plan
Former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, who is currently the minister of works and housing, has shown his support for the ban on motorcycles by the Lagos state government. Fashola lent his support to the action on at a public lecture organised by the United Action for Change (UAC) in Lagos on Thursday. The […]
No going back on okada, keke ban ― Sanwo-Olu
The Lagos State Government says it will not reverse the ongoing enforcement of its Transport Sector Reform Law of 2018, which restricts the operations of commercial motorcycles, popularly known as Okada and tricycles, popularly known as Keke NAPEP in 15 local councils across the state. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said this on Tuesday while speaking at […]
34 suspects arrested for attacking policemen at Iyana Ipaja, Lagos
The police in Lagos said they had arrested 34 suspects for allegedly attacking policemen at Iyana Ipaja following restriction and ban on the operations of motorcycles and tricycles by the state government. The Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, in a statement on Wednesday, said that 86 motorcycles were also impounded at Aboru […]
