Speaker of the state assembly, Rt. Honourable Adeyemi Ikuforiji, who made the position of the assemblymen known urged security operatives to step to the plate and deal with the security challenge.
Ikuforiji threatened that if the destructive protests continue like it did today at different locations in the state, the House would not hesitate to slam a total ban on Okadas in the state.
Eyewitnesses counted at least 9 vandalised Lagos state government owned BRT buses around the Onipanu and Palmgrove end of Ikorodu Road as angry okada operators wielded sticks, irons and planks before security operatives dispersed them.
In a related development, the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN, Monday declared a total war on okadas operating on the 475 routes after the ban.
In his address at an enlightenment forum on the ban to the military in Lagos, the governor, who used the occasion to seek their assistance in the implementation of the ban said, “The military gave us this democracy, so there must be a continuing partnership to keep it going.
“I understand the economics of the okada. But it also has the social effects. Many fathers have lost their children; many husbands have lost their wives; many children have lost both parents.
“All we are saying is don’t go on the highways. Somebody just pulls okada from any parts of the country he likes, gets onto a truck, he’s going to Lagos and then you entrust your life to that man? As if that was not bad enough, he drives against traffic?” the governor said.
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