₦airaland Forum

Thank you!

Minjim:
We were surviving b4 smartphones, Internet, flat screen TVs too. They too have their negativities.
Would you say we should do away with them cos of their negativities? Especially the Internet.
Some people came with a modernized form of Okada operation. They use GPS, train their workers and monitor them. Instead of the GOVT to encourage others to gradually adapt to the new method, they banned everything. In a state with no good network of roads?
Just like bitcoins, what our govt do is ban anything they lacked the answer to

Other dangerous weapon that have no name.. Fear police

I always laff when I see news like this , oshodi is head quarters of Okada and taskforce head office is at the same oshodi ....

These people are only focused on turning Lagos into a modern and organized city without improving the economic situations of the citizens, but does banning okada make Lagos look more modern?

government should do the necessary things like road network and watch okada die natural death......

I am always amused when I read people's responses on Nairaland concerning Okada riders. 'What will they do now? There will be high rate of robbery ' etc. I have come to conclude that these are people who maybe had never left Lagos before. Majority of the okada riders are from the North and these commentators need to know that nearly all the Northern states had banned Okada riding and are seriously enforcing it. So it's Lagos that should take them due to share laziness on most people's part with all the attendant ills of Okada riding?

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1759ademola:
As if we didn't survive before Okada was brought into Nigeria. They're full of miscreants.

hope u can trek very well?

AbujaAgent:
Stopping okada in Lagos, for now is impossible. Because there is no substitute to fast transportation means.
The train stations must be fully active and must cover all parts of Lagos before Okada can be stopped. If not police will get tired
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Impossible?..............we shall see

KanuSE:
The poor are always the victims.

The poor with no hand work aside ridding okada never start to be poor, na nw d poor go start

Spartacus101:
So everybody were enter hotel now na cultist??
Nawa o

Stop typing what u know nothing about, celina hotel in bariga is not a place anybody enters, everybody knows that's d den of terrorists, ppl have been making report about that hotel over d years, I don't think ordinary ppl lodge there except u don't value ur life coz u won't need anybody to tell u when u enter

Minjim:
We were surviving b4 smartphones, Internet, flat screen TVs too. They too have their negativities.
Would you say we should do away with them cos of their negativities? Especially the Internet.
Some people came with a modernized form of Okada operation. They use GPS, train their workers and monitor them. Instead of the GOVT to encourage others to gradually adapt to the new method, they banned everything. In a state with no good network of roads?
Just like bitcoins, what our govt do is ban anything they lacked the answer to

What the Government is saying is motorbikes are not approved for public transportation. Can't you understand that!

pacespot:
These people are only focused on turning Lagos into a modern and organized city without improving the economic situations of the citizens, but does banning okada make Lagos look more modern?

Capital YES!

murmee:
What the Government is saying is motorbikes are not approved for public transportation. Can't you understand that!

Where?

Who are the govt?


They're not approved but they allowed it to foster.

Check all underdeveloped countries in Africa you see motorcycle operators.

The govt ought to put an equal alternative in place first

murmee:
Capital YES!

Then what's your definition of modernization when a huge economic belt like commercial bike is taken off the streets of Lagos without an obvious alternative, considering the huge economic hole that will be dug in the pocket of those bike riders and the inconveniences created for the masses. Is it not the same Lagos that I lived in for years where most of the streets are not with a tarred road and driving through some open ways can be a hellish experience. The residents of most of Lagos hinterlands rely on these commercial bikes to convey themselves from their various places of business to their homes.

Lagos is a commercial city, you cannot sustain the city by stifling the informal sectors, the people that you see doing petty businesses on the streets of Lagos are the real backbones of the economy. If you want to make Lagos an exclusive area for the super rich or high income class, then the city will lose most of the economic potentials it is currently enjoying. The government can modernize the informal sectors by building infrastructures to enable them conduct their businesses in a more organized way, not by taking away the only mode of transportation available and reliable for them. Lagos is a commecial city I repeat again, if you want an exclusive area to build your mansion as a super rich, you should go to the suburbs or remote areas in other cities to do so. Think of Lagos as the USA New York of today, nobody is going to New York to grab land to build a mansion but to establish their business. This is the same purpose Lagos is meant to serve Nigeria as it gives the country access to sea and ports.