The Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed December 15, 2020 to hear a suit praying for the reversal of the ban placed by the Lagos State Government on the operations of commercial motorcycles and tricycles, popularly known as okada and Keke Marwa, respectively, in parts of the state.

A Lagos-based lawyer, Julius Ajibulu, who filed the suit before Justice Chuka Obiozor, said the ban on okada and Keke Marwa, without a replacement with an alternative means of transport, had subjected Lagosians to untold hardship and taken away the source of livelihood of the operators.

The lawyer claimed that the ban and the attendant job loss had led to “massive unemployment” and an escalation in the rate of crime and insecurity in Lagos State.

He said the ban violated his fundamental rights and those of other Lagosians under sections 33, 34, 36, 38, 41 and 42 of the 1999 Constitution.

Ajibulu is praying the court to order “the immediate resumption of commercial operations and activities of tricyles (Keke NAPEP/ Marwa) and motorcycles (okada) of 50cc-200cc capacity engine on the above stated highways and expressways through the aforesaid bridges in the above 15 local government and local development council areas of Lagos State.”

He is also seeking damages in the sum of N1bn as well as a public apology in newspapers.

Ajibulu’s is the second lawsuit against the Lagos State Government over the ban on okada and Keke Marwa.

Another lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, is also before the Federal High Court, praying that the ban be reversed.

Gbadungbadun99x:
Innocent bike men were stripped of their daily living

HenryThegreat1:

Why Agbero are treating like kings.
Had banned of Okada stopped traffic, accident, crime in Lagos? Answer is capital NO.

HenryThegreat1:

Why Agbero are treating like kings.
Had banned of Okada stopped traffic, accident, crime in Lagos? Answer is capital NO.

ecolime:
Was totally against the banned earlier. Looking back now, I think it's a right decision. There is more sanity now.

saheedbadmus:
Abeg make we no blow too much grammar.. wetin sure be say bike riders no fit win for court , since that's the way the state Govt wants there thing but what am not in support of is the way they collected their bikes with force ..if to say our country develop , na who go dey drive okada hustle na.. enough unemployed graduates driving okada/napep(3ricyle) to survive.. una no provide job for d masses dem hustle buy bike una still collect am .. why not leave dere bike to them and let them take it or sell to other states/areas where bikes dey work .. and at the end of the day na some mumu ogas go still sell the bikes o .. na govt the name Apanilekun Jaiye fit

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Lanretoye:
before the govt started seizing their bikes,there was an ultimatum.the only problem is that the police is just enriching themselves with poor men’s bikes.