The Lagos State Commissioner Of Police, Abiodun Alabi, has stated that many motorcycle operators are criminals in disguise who perpetrate nefarious acts across the state.

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced a ban on motorcycles, popularly known as Okadas, in six local government areas on Wednesday after what he described as “a critical review” on the “menace that has not abated.”

Speaking on Channels Television’s flagship show Sunrise Daily on Thursday, commissioner Alabi disclosed that many of the riders were unlicensed after consultations with executive bodies within the state.

“I want to be emphatic here, most of them are criminals masquerading as okada riders,” Abiodun said

“We have arrested so many of them with locally made pistols in the course of their operations and many of them have been charged to court.”

The commissioner also lamented the level of crime committed with the aid of motorcycles in communities across the nation’s economic hub.

“They use these okadas to commit a lot of crimes in so many communities; that is why we have been having a lot of dialogue and consultations with their unions,” he said.

“The best way out is to get them off our roads because a lot of them are masquerading as okada riders but are criminals.”

Commissioner Alabi was however not reluctant to admit that the ban had some drawbacks.

“We know that banning the Okada riders can actually increase the crime rate. And we are not unmindful of that and we are already putting in place a lot of strategies to contend with it.” he said.

“We know that it will send a lot of them to unemployment. We are aware of that and are preparing for it.”

https://www.channelstv.com/2022/05/19/most-okada-riders-in-lagos-are-criminals-police-commissioner/

No be lie. They only use Okada riding to cover face, most of them are hard time criminals

This is bad generalisation

Some engage in Okada business for fraudulent purposes but not all of them. And most definitely not all the criminals that uses Okada for criminality are hausas ..

Your fellow Nigerian policemen are the worst criminals in Nigeria today. Trained to maintain peace in a society and enforce laws but the reverse is the case...

God1000:
This is bad generalisation

How is that a bad generilisation?

Dem plenty 4 igando here

Imagine commissioner of police calling Okada rider criminals ... Are the police any different ?

They have taken over ojodu. I blame jide sanwolu for this nonsense.

helinues:


How is that a bad generilisation?

How is it not a bad generalization?

helinues:


How is that a bad generilisation?

such statement is dangerous

Mariangeles:


How is it not a bad generalization?

Are you one of the riders? Cos it seems like you are talking from experience

God1000:
such statement is dangerous

So you are telling us you know more than the Lagos CP?

Are you the Lagos state IGP?

helinues:


Fixed

When they outright ban these means of livelihood for honest people, what do they expect them to do?
what other options do they offer them? Na only to ban them sabi?

Mariangeles:


When they outright ban these means of livelihood for honest people, what do they expect them to do?
what other options do they offer them? Na only to ban them sabi?

“We know that banning the Okada riders can actually increase the crime rate. And we are not unmindful of that and we are already putting in place a lot of strategies to contend with it.” he said.

“We know that it will send a lot of them to unemployment. We are aware of that and are preparing for it.”

Take note of @ emboldened...

Is like saying because the destroying of slums and shanties can make some people homeless, then the criminals hiding there should be left alone.

You see after this okada banning, shanties and slums destruction is the next

helinues:


So you are telling us you know more than the Lagos CP?

Are you the Lagos state IGP?

let's say we have 100,000 okada riders in Lagos, he's telling us that 60,000 are criminals

Since 2004, no commercial motorcyclist has seen the street of city centres in Abuja like Maitama, Asoroko, Wuse, Wuye and many others. They're only permitted to operate in poor man's areas like Mpape, Kubwa Village, etc .

Drugnibu's urchins and their head slamming colleagues in that line of work are criminals and agents of skull mining, spits.

Big one

Make them send all this hausas bike riders back to there state

God1000:
This is bad generalisation

guy this is just d obvious truth,let’s face reality for once n stop forming woke

We should learn to call a spade a spade

Yes, and the most annoying thing is that most of them are not even Nigerians. They're from Niger and Cameroon.

Imagine me as a guy who speaks Hausa, most of the time if I speak Hausa to them to try and get discount they'll be looking at me like fools, they can't even understand or some of them will be speaking one kind of Hausa that I've not heard before.

All okada men should have means of verification and the foreigners should be thrown out of the country and deported immediately, they cannot come and be giving us bad name.

https://youtube.com/shorts/i0CsVXx0LsY?feature=share STAND STRONG (cover) Davido.
May God heal us all in this trying times.

Okadas are becoming a nuisance especially those of Northern extract. They ride like they are on drugs. Just hit them and they have a accident, they believe the next thing to do is to start a mob and burn your vehicle. They are not fit for a modern society.

If this is the price, they have to pay for killing an innocent man, David, so be it.

Where did you get your statistics from you people don't start with your jargons statistics....


That's how you guys came up with your every Young guy successful been a fraudster....


Just because people perpetrate evil you can't start profiling and generalizing things....

Noted

Everywhere, not just Lagos. Many of them are Keke drivers.

Over ninety percent of them are foreigners who entered Nigeria through the various unguarded boarders in the north.

The north is supplying enough problems to all parts of Nigeria. Enjoy your "one Nigeria"