REF NO CZ: 5650/LS/PPRO/VOL.3/90

POLICE PRESS RELEASE, LAGOS STATE COMMAND, DATED 26TH APRIL, 2021.

OKADA RIDERS' FIGHT: POLICE RESTORE NORMALCY TO IYANA IBA/ALABA RAGO AXIS, DEBUNK RUMOUR OF ETHNIC CLASH.

The Lagos State Police Command has restored normalcy to theIyana Iba/Alaba Rago and Ojo areas of the state where there was a disagreement between the members of the transport unions, okada units precisely, on the increment in tariff today, Monday 26th April, 2021.

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu,has ordered for immediate deployment of additional police personnel to the area to maintain law and order as he also directed the Area Commander, Area E Festac, to personally be on ground to monitor the situation and invite the leaders of the affected Okada riders unit for an urgent meeting.

The Command wishes to debunk the rumor that the disgreement, not violence as being peddled in the social media, was between some ethnic groups. Without mincing words, the incident has no ethic colouration whatsoever but a mere conflict between transport unions and their okada units on ticketing and increment in tariff.

The Command therefore enjoins members of the public, especially those around the areas, including the students of the Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo, to go about their lawful businesses and studies respectively, as adequate deployment has been done to fortify security in the axis and by extension, in Lagos State in general.

E-SIGNED

CSP OLUMUYIWA ADEJOBI (mnipr)
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
LAGOS STATE COMMAND
IKEJA-LAGOS
DATED 26TH APRIL, 2021.

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Better...

Those who caused the mayhem should be arrested and prosecuted

Just ban okada once and for all

They will always debunk

MuchAdo:
Just ban okada once and for all

won't do any good as of now!

the problem is an agbero problem.easy to resolve

You are using Ak 47 and PAC to settle a mere "disagreement"?
It's okay
Perhaps they will use air gunships and tanks to then intervene when it becomes a fight.

It's getting crazy

Government of lies

Some are saying ban Okada.

You can never survive without okada in that area. It needs to be controlled but banned? impossicant. Fashola tried it but after some time, people started begging for them to return.

The roads are arguably, the most terrible in the whole of Lagos so the only thing Govt can do is fill the place with Security people, call their Authority to rein-in his boys, and then speed up the road.