My aboki maigard called Maina (my daughter calls him Mannah! ) was able to put aside 60k and one morning around 8am, he went to Oyingbo with his friend to purchased a Bajaj motorcycle.

He has never ride okada before all his life, but his friend taught him from 11am till 3pm, and before you say okada, he has entered the road and started carrying passengers as an okada rider. (That is a suicide killer on the loose )

A lot of these aboki guys are in lagos to do okada business especially around apapa and ikeja and more often, they hardly knows the Lagos roads well enough. Thatz why they don't mention any price until they have taken you to your destination.

i hope the okada riders will obey the directive. The okader riders like competing with car drivers. U will see okada plying lagos- ibadan express. They wan turn van damme over night

That Okada is banned on highways is fine. Nobody can fault that. I live and work in Lagos but I have a problem identifying the 'major highways' that are affected by the ban. I wonder how an okada man will figure out which highways not to ply.

I think the government should embark on an enlightenment campaign (especially on the radio using pidgin english) listing all the highways affected. If this is not done, what the governor has done is to give the police and LASMA officials a meal ticket.

Thank u sir our good governor.This is long over due and we all welcome it.OKADA plying KETU to OJOTAand vice versa una don hear oooooooooooooooooo.

I personally think its smth worthy of discussion in the National Assembly.

At times, when i see the okadas on the highway, i ask myself, what is he doing on the highway?

Personally, i'd never climb any okada on the highway, it's suicidal!

Very well supported. if you visit our orthopedic hospital in Igbobi, you'll call for outright ban. Let them limit their trade to the inner roads, the carnage is too much, i barely escaped a crash late last year.

Meanwhile, adequate info on what roads constitute high ways should be made available to the various okada unions operating in the state.

Very well supported.

What I have noticed lately is that these okada riders stay at the middle of the road abandoning the road side and when you blow your horn for them to give way, both the okada man and the passengers rain curses on you.

more Okada=more traffic/security concerns

As far as im concerned,d only set of okada rider's dat shld be taken of d highways of las gidi are d hausa one's.d aboki's are d most careless set of bike riders ive ever come across.dey drive as though they are blind.sometime last year 1 of dem nearly got me killed.wen in other 2 beat d lekki traffic i had to take a bike 4rm d palms 2 ajah.i had a serious injury on my shoulder and thigh dat took 2 mnths to heal, and funny enof na 4 island dem aboki okada riders pack put sef, but 1 tin is dat we cant do witout dem in lagos, it cld work in another state but nt lagos, its really workin 4 dem in enugu.now wen im on a bike i pray 2 God,i dont miss dat!!

Okada riders are a menace to our major highways and they must be ban

Coming later than expected though,

The loss is more than the gain, and 90% of d riders are very reckless

SOmetimes its hard on which to avoid,cars on highway,abi okada's.

People will obviously get use to it, come to think of it, what of when there was no okada

Uncle Fash, biko ban them without thinking twice

I think it is wrong for the Lagos state government to embark on enlightenment campaign on what a highway is. If someone is plying a vehicle on public roads and doesn't know what a highway is, they should be arrested immediately. Abeg make LASTMA jeun soke.

All the same though, What happens to those bike riders for courier companies. To an extent, they are bikes used for commercial purposes, though they ride carefully.

Unless the government will say no more passenger bikes on highways but right this second, I just remembered those that have power bikes and drive them to work or for fun. This thing has to be phrased properly so it doesn't sound like segregating the poor.

Truth is though, at the end of the day, poor people should leave Lagos: beggars, okada riders, cart pushers, hawkers, roadside sellers, touts, molue drivers, prostitutes and roadside mechanics.

ilugunboy:

My aboki maigard called Maina (my daughter calls him Mannah! ) was able to put aside 60k and one morning around 8am, he went to Oyingbo with his friend to purchased a Bajaj motorcycle.

He has never ride okada before all his life, but his friend taught him from 11am till 3pm, and before you say okada, he has entered the road and started carrying passengers as an okada rider. (That is a suicide killer on the loose )

A lot of these aboki guys are in lagos to do okada business especially around apapa and ikeja and more often, they hardly knows the Lagos roads well enough. Thatz why they don't mention any price until they have taken you to your destination.

funniest post on this topic so far. lol

@dnex

Truth is though, at the end of the day, poor people should leave Lagos: beggars, okada riders, cart pushers, hawkers, roadside sellers, touts, molue drivers, prostitutes and roadside mechanics.

Haaba, wetin sef?
Wetin be your beef with poor people sef?
Is it poor people that ruined this country or the rich ones (after embezzling our treasury)?
Is it poor people that swear and do all those Okija, Ijebu-ode, Cliford Orji, "Baba sleep with son's wife" stunts we read about in the papers?
Is it poor people that evade tax in Lagos?
Is it poor people that slap Policemen on the road?
Is poor people that blow siren and run other poor people off the road?
Is it poor people that do all those owambe party(s), spraying naira (and Dolapo) notes like its tissue paper?


When your car breaks down in the rain at Apogbon, who do you call to push it: Poor People
When you buy a truckload of groceries at the market and you need carriage to your car, Hey, poor people oooo
When you have a flat tire and you need o do a change who does the sweating?: Poor people
Who sells you that fine Beans that you call "Ewa-Agoin"? , Poor people
You need to clear your drain and clean windows, You begin halla to poor people!
When you need to cause Mayhem after loosing an election, who do you recruit? , Poor people
When you want to build your fine houses at Lekki and you need laborers, which people will answer your call?, Poor people
Is it poor people that, look, mind ya self O!

Can all the poor people in the house supply all other things we do for this "ingrates" of a rich people?

Infact, lets go on a strike and lets see how the Rich people will survive without us

Lagos is nothing, l repeat, "NUFHIN" without its poor people!, and we ain't going no-where!

, and remember, the day you decide to set your house on fire and Firebrigade comes with empty truck!,
its we poor people that will be running around to save your neck and properties, with a miserable buckets of water, shouting:
"Aaaahhh,, fire-fire, omi daa? Wataaahh,, Eeeeeh, dis fine house must not burn finish!

Fashola, oya, drive us out and lets see who will vote for you! (abi u tink say it is "reesh" people that stand in the rain/sun on election day?)
I dey come, all poor people, come make we start we meeting, abegi o!!
Even sef, "Poor Peoples Party" (P.P.P.) go win Fashola in 2011 elections
, and we will relocate and confine "him" and other "reesh" people to "reserved GRA's" like Makoko, Bariga, Iwaya, Ijora, e.t.c!


Nonsense "reesh" people, arrogant and unfriendly lot!

Lastpage.

dnex:

Truth is though, at the end of the day, poor people should leave Lagos: beggars, okada riders, cart pushers, hawkers, roadside sellers, touts, molue drivers, prostitutes and roadside mechanics.

the rich man has spoken
poor people should be mass murdered sef. don't u agree??

Nigerian pasttime . . . . Our number one solution to most all our problems . . . Banning !!!

Ban ! Ban!! Ban!!! Ban, Bannity . . . . . Bannity ooo!!!

kobojunkie u're banned sef

oyinda.:

the rich man has spoken
poor people should be mass murdered sef. don't u agree??

How?

Kobojunkie:

Nigerian pasttime . . . . Our number one solution to most all our problems . . . Banning !!!

Ban ! Ban!! Ban!!! Ban, Bannity . . . . . Bannity ooo!!!

Lol

Truth is though, at the end of the day, poor people should leave Lagos: beggars, okada riders, cart pushers, hawkers, roadside sellers, touts, molue drivers, prostitutes and roadside mechanics.

Haaba, wetin sef?
Wetin be your beef with poor people sef?
Is it poor people that ruined this country or the rich ones (after embezzling our treasury)?
Is it poor people that swear and do all those Okija, Ijebu-ode, Cliford Orji, "Baba sleep with son's wife" stunts we read about in the papers?
Is it poor people that evade tax in Lagos?
Is it poor people that slap Policemen on the road?
Is poor people that blow siren and run other poor people off the road?
Is it poor people that do all those owambe party(s), spraying naira (and Dolapo) notes like its tissue paper?


When your car breaks down in the rain at Apogbon, who do you call to push it: Poor People
When you buy a truckload of groceries at the market and you need carriage to your car, Hey, poor people oooo
When you have a flat tire and you need o do a change who does the sweating?: Poor people
Who sells you that fine Beans that you call "Ewa-Agoin"? , Poor people
You need to clear your drain and clean windows, You begin halla to poor people!
When you need to cause Mayhem after loosing an election, who do you recruit? , Poor people
When you want to build your fine houses at Lekki and you need laborers, which people will answer your call?, Poor people
Is it poor people that, look, mind ya self O!

Can all the poor people in the house supply all other things we do for this "ingrates" of a rich people?

Infact, lets go on a strike and lets see how the Rich people will survive without us

Lagos is nothing, l repeat, "NUFHIN" without its poor people!, and we ain't going no-where!

, and remember, the day you decide to set your house on fire and Firebrigade comes with empty truck!,
its we poor people that will be running around to save your neck and properties, with a miserable buckets of water, shouting:
"Aaaahhh,, fire-fire, omi daa? Wataaahh,, Eeeeeh, dis fine house must not burn finish! [/color][color=#990000][/color][color=#990000][/color][color=#990000][/color][color=#990000]

A little sleep and a little slumber, POVERTY will come knocking.

A poor Man is a Man who cannot convert innate potientials in measurable performance indices.

POVERTY,a twin brother to AIDS.

IS only in the Dictionary that the word PLEASURE comes b/4 works.

We are where we are 2day b/c we have decided to do the same thing every day and expect different result.

POOR MAN , an achitect of his misfortune : wives, children, etc.

Can u immagine am the FIRST GRADUATE in my town age 26. No body may come b/4 in the nearest future.

Went home to contribute my quota, and nearly loose my head if not for GOD. wHO WANTS TO KILL ME POOR MAN.

I STRONGLY HOPE SOME ARE DESTINED.

MAY GOD HELP.

Ehisianya!
Firt village graduate @26yrs!!

Now, some old lady won the equivalent of about #2.4 Billion naira (about 10,million Pounds!) from the Lottery, not too long ago.
Now, she is rich beyond comprehension (for an "about to depart"!  )

Going by your definition (or Poem!) of poverty, do you think that lady is rich because of HARDWORK?

One very poor man has just one child from his only darling of a wife; Abiola has ? (how many wives and children sef?)
but he died (was murdered!) a Multi-Billionaire, even some of his children will die Multi-Millionaire (he did some fixed, million-naira deposit for them at birth!)

Now, between the single-child, single-wife man and M.K.O. Abiola, if "number of wives and children" is an indicator for poverty, who is supposed to be poorer? 


Now, l think l know why "you went home and nearly lost that your coconut head"!,
Your co-villagers tell me you were saying too much "RUBBISH"!  (lol)

Have you heard of "being at the right place at the right time" before?
Some call it Luck, some say its Destiny, others in my "church" call it MIRACLE!
Somebody shout Haaalelooooooooo, 

There is a word call "OPPORTUNITY", it knocks on doors but not everyone's door!
It can be inherited,, if your parents are "sharp",, nothing to do with your hardwork!
It can differentiate between poverty and Riches.

How you "manage it" afterwards, is another kettle of fish!

Hardwork is good but it is not enough neither is it a "pre-requisite".
Had that not been the case, the "Alabarus" (load carriers) and peasant farmers, should have been the richest but are they?

Now that you're the "first graduate" in your village, may you not be the last.
May you assist other younger ones to follow in your footstep.

Finally, learn to WORK SMART, EVEN IF YOU INSIST ON WORKING HARD!

cheers,
Lastpage.


BTW: if you want to "repeat" what someone posted, pls use the "quotation marks" "***"

see as den make okada the scape goat.

wetin open ditch dey do for ground to start with? abi na okada dig ditch put for ground?


if na yankee, the dead victims (RIP) families don enter money be that, den go sue the state abi local government and collect serious money for living the ditch open.

So far the law has not worked or maybe they are still cooking it. You cannot train an okada, many of them have bad eye sight and they cannot afford glasses. They also don't have a fast thinking faculty and they operate mainly on instinct.

The okada is a very dangerous animal that ruins life. If you go out walking in Lagos and you get back home without being run over or maimed by an okada, you should give thanks and glory.

long overdue!but i think outright banning will do.truth is they ve found a way to integrate into our lives but they ve caused more harms than good.yes we will miss them somehow(i use the a lot)but we will always find a way out.better to get to ur appointment late than dead!

they are just a fallout of a decayed transprt system

its for the welfare
of all Nigerian.

good work

modobo:

So far the law has not worked or maybe they are still cooking it. You cannot train an okada, many of them have bad eye sight and they cannot afford glasses. They also don't have a fast thinking faculty and they operate mainly on instinct.

The okada is a very dangerous animal that ruins life. If you go out walking in Lagos and you get back home without being run over or maimed by an okada, you should give thanks and glory.

show me any law in Nigeria that works.
i will show you what is not really a law, or something that only the sharia wants

MrCrackles:

Wetin Okada men dey find for highways sef

I wonder too, and i pity the people dem dey carry, people dont seems to value their own life at all

Not that people don't value their own life, its just that its late only when its too late then they realise that it has always been a risk they took.
Oh it cant happen to me! Oh it cant happen to me! Oh it cant happen to me! Oh it just did!! Too late.

Ain t fair

Should this guy be banned from plying ONLY highways with these 4 kids or should be banned 4eva?

In my own opinion, okada riders MUST be outrightly BANNED

They are very wreckless on one hand but convenient on another.

As for highways, they have absolutely no business there. You can't even get to your destination in Lagos within 2 hrs because of this madness.

Anyway, pls Fashola, give those people jobs o'

monkey dey carry monkey climb palm tree