OKADA WAR: Over 3,000 Bikes Seized by Police as Okada riders attack BRT

Okada riders attacked and vandalised 10 BRT buses at Onipanu axis of Ikorodu road on Monday.

It was learnt that the Okada riders in their hundreds hauled stones on the only BRT bus and destroyed its windscreen before policemen started shooting to disperse them. No arrest was made.

“Policemen were arresting Okada riders indiscriminately as if it was a total ban on Okada. They arrested our members who were plying roads that were not banned. They collected N15,000 from each Okada rider arrested,” Adewale alleged, appealing to Lagos state government to ensure justice was done as law abiding Okada riders were injustly punished by policemen.

Meanwhile, an estimated 3,000 motorcycles,  have been impounded by the police who are enforcing the Lagos traffic law.

The office of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit is filled with the impounded bikes. The taskforce office is the place where motorcysles seized by the various police stations are dumped.

At the weekend, Governor Babatunde Fashola declared total war on okada riders, vowing to stamp them out of the restricted routes.

He said the enforcement of the ban by the police was just a tip of the iceberg of what would befall recalcitrant okada riders saying the police action was just to test-run how the raid on okada riders would be.

The governor added that by the time officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI and other security agencies joined in the enforcement, there would be no hiding place for okada riders. Source