Lagos task force destroys 1,500 confiscated motorcycles

On Monday, the Lagos State Task Force headquarters in Oshodi witnessed the burning of 1,500 motorbikes that had been confiscated. Eluwaseun Osiyemi, the Lagos Commissioner for Transportation, and Wale Musa, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, were there.

Pictures from the exercise were posted to the Lagos State Government’s X account on Monday.

At the crushing of 1,500 confiscated commercial motorbikes at the Lagos State Task Force premises on Monday, Commissioner Oluwaseun Osiyemi of #lagosMOT1 was accompanied by Permanent Secretary Wale Musa, according to the caption.

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Commercial motorbikes, or “okadas,” are prohibited from operating on major highways by the Lagos State Government, according to Obasanjo News24.

The state government’s recent stepped-up crackdown on okada drivers, who are rumoured to have resumed operating their vehicles, has some connection to the exercise planned for Monday.

Since Lagos is so near to Ogun State, it has been challenging to implement the ban on Okada throughout the state, according to Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, Director of Public Affairs for the Lagos State Task Force. This was reinforced in October.

“Some Okada riders use the neighbouring state as camouflage whenever we want to arrest them,” he said, referring to Ojodu’s border town status. We would not want to go outside our bounds, thus this has been impeding our work in that sector.

“While we work to alleviate the congestion, we will make every effort to develop an alternative strategy.”