The Lagos State Government on Thursday said commercial motorcycle operators, popularly called okada riders, were responsible for most cases of insecurity and a large number of tragedies in the state.
The government added that it had
decided to stop the menace of the riders and motorists’s poor driving
attitudes with its new traffic law.
Deputy Governor of the state, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, said these at a stakeholders’ forum on the law in Lagos.
The forum, which had in attendance
representatives of Community Development Associations, Community
Development Committees and Supervisory Councillors of local governments
among others, was organised by the ministries of Transportation and
Rural Development.
Orelope-Adefulire said with the traffic
law, the government would no longer fold its arms and watch its roads
turned to slaughter slabs by reckless motorists and okada riders.
She said, “This law has to do with us as a people of Lagos and those dealing with us. The law is for the benefit of all of us.
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