Irate Okada riders clashed with Task Force officials on Tuesday at Rainbow area on Oshodi-Mile 2 Expressway with three vehicles belonging to the Task Force damaged and one person injured.
It was
gathered that the Task Force officials were at the area to enforce compliance
to the road traffic law of the state which prohibited okara riders from plying
certain routes, among others.
Taofeek
Adebayo, Task Force spokesman said the operatives of the agency based on series
of complaints from the public about activities of okada riders using their
bikes to rob them of their valuables and plying restricted routes, went out to
the area for enforcement.
“After
impounding about 74 okadas caught plying one-way and those operating on
highway, Okada riders mobilised themselves and attacked officers of the agency.
“They damaged
beyond repair two of our vehicles with one of our trucks.
“A Paramilitary
officer attached to the Agency, Ganiyu Mustapha, was wounded with broken
bottles and cutlass because he mistakenly ran into the mob,” he said.
Adebayo
stated that since the #EndSARS protest, every motorists, including okada riders
operate with impunity, thereby causing serious traffic gridlock across the
State.
“We had a
stakeholders meeting with their Okada leaders and they made us to understand
that all.those flagrantly disobeying the laws are not responsible to any
associations in Lagos.
“We must all
join hands together to salvage the State from the hands of these notorious
criminals who use okada to perpetuate evil to the public,” he said.
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