The Trustees of Motorcycle Transport Union of Nigeria (MTUN) has dragged the Lagos State Government before the Federal High Court in Lagos.

MTUN and others are praying for a declaration that the ban on commercial motorcycles is illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional.

Other applicants in the suit include Comrade Peter Umoh, Pastor Tony Onuoha, David Abiona, Adebayo Oluwasegun, Gambo Muhammed, Yakubu Abubakar, Ayo Boluwade, Amaechi Peter and Nwamiri Monday.

The Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State Task Force, Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, and Commissioner for Transport, Lagos State, are the defendants.

In the suit numbered FHC/L/CS/1016/2022, the applicants are praying the court for a declaration that the “purported proposed ban of commercial motorcycle transportation in Lagos State by the governor without hearing from the operators whose rights are affected or likely to be affected is a violation of the constitutional rights of the applicants to fair hearing provided for and encapsulated in Section 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).”

The applicants are also praying for a declaration that the ban on the business of commercial motorcycle transportation in Lagos by the government “is a violation of the rights of the applicants guaranteed by Section 33 of the 1999 constitution who cannot be alive without food and other means of sustenance and whose income is the business of commercial motorcycle transportation.”

In the affidavit in support of the application, sworn to by one Pastor Emmanuel Donatus, the deponent averred that he and other operators had no means of sustenance apart from the business of Okada.

They prayed the government to restrict Okada operations on major highways to “approved areas” rather than banning their operations.

The suit has not been assigned to any judge.

Meanwhile, the Lagos State Police Command, on Wednesday, seized 170 motorcycles and arrested 16 passengers and riders as enforcement of the ban on the operations of Okada riders in the state commenced.

The state’s police spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin, said 94 of the motorcycles were impounded by the police, while others were seized by men of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Enforcement Agency.

https://dailytrust.com/okada-ban-riders-sue-lagos-govt

This country na real circus

Let's see

Those aboki terrorists diguising as bike riders!

Thank God they have met their waterloo.,
Let's see the outcome of the court case, yeye dey smell,.

Nigeria is like levels in a game play......

Okada riders somehow in many ways makes several Lagosians lives easier

Banning them generally isn't going to work

sirjustice1575:
Those aboki terrorists diguising as bike riders!

Thank God they have met their waterloo.,
Let's see the outcome of the court case, yeye dey smell,.

Lagos state okada riders association won't be a bad idea .

Let wait and see the outcome of the court

These ones wan waste thier small okada money them get on court cases that will drag many years.

Lol


I won't be surprised if the court rule in their favour.. After all na them Northerners dey run our courts

There are no okada in newyork, Shanghai, Tokyo, Dubai, etc

So why should there be okada in Lagos, even in New Delhi, tricycle operators cannot play some streets,

Why are we always backwards. Even India that worship cows don't allow them to roam around the way we do.

We play politics with okada ban too. We all know the right thing to do, but why are we not doing it

They thought some of them could roast someone alive, gang up on motorists, become a menace on our roads ........

And not face consequences........... They should remember, if not for Tinubu, sanwo olu would have not become the governor...........

Ban all of them. Okadas are the number one cause of avoidable road accidents and deaths within Lagos. No lawlessness should be allowed.

As it stands, status quo ante bellum should be maintained

F

must be a fake news�

Removing them from some major roads is ok for now not this approach.

Their lawyer wan do small cash out on top okada people head

Why ban Okada in the entire state?

If you shift them to the rural areas and from major roads then it's understandable

What job alternative has the government provided for them.

What will they do to feed their family, how will they survive?

Make nobody come here come dae complain of terrorism or kidnapping later oh.

A Fowl can't fly as high like a Hawk, these foolish Lagos state government should stop comparing Lago to other cities where people are being begged to come and work.

Foolish Government.

If I am affected by this nonsense law without being given another job alternative.

Hmmm.

Make I no talk.

Lol an effort in futility

So they have an association. When their riders where misbehaving upandown Lagos State even to the extent of murder, no caution and they kept quiet. Now that the big stick have been wielded upon them they are crying out.

Okay, let see how it goes.

The people we carry this Peter Obi matter for head are all in Canada, UK and Turkey

#supportomoredia4president

ijustdey:


https://dailytrust.com/okada-ban-riders-sue-lagos-govt

Thrash....some people just like to dey waste their time....
..

ok

Sue them. Lagos belongs to everybody.

Just because Northerners are dealing with the Bourdilon thief in Abuja he thinks he can vent his anger and punish Northerners via banning okada that Northerners make off a living with in Lagos.
An Hausa man has equal rights as a yoruba man. Tinubu vi's Sanwo Olu has touched the tail of a tiger, we Northerners shall teach them a lesson in this lagos they somuch covet.

Tinubu, get ready for this fight.

They think say na Northern Nigeria dem dey......mad people