Security expert, Opaluwa seeks ban of ‘Okada Riders’ over safety concerns

A Security expert and Analyst, Comrade Opaluwa Eleojo Simeon has decried the rate of deaths, injuries owing to motorcycle related accidents and abnormal activities of motorcyclists popularly called Okada riders and called for a total ban.

He pointed out the tragic death and disaster of sorts on Abuja-Nyanya-Keffi road often caused by those unlicensed ‘Okada boys’ without anyone reprimanding them.

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In a statement he sent to CAPITAL POST on Friday in Abuja, Opaluwa maintained that Police , Federal Road Safety Corps officials are eyewitnesses to the menace, but helpless to do anything because of their hydraheadedness.

The Nyanya – Mararaba – Keffi road, a trunk A road with high vehicle and human movement has been turned to a corridor of death and disaster owing to the illegal and abnormal activities of unlicensed motorcycle riders also known as “Okada Boys”.

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“These riders have cultivated the culture of anomie in driving against traffic, also known as “one-way”.

Opaluwa noted that ban on Okada riders sa e a lot of souls and check their excesses.

“Death and other bodily harm have been recorded by the Police, FRSC, VIO, and other Agencies and Non Governmental Organisations such as the Traffic Update Family. This institutionalised anomie must not be allowed to continue thereby preventing future deaths.

“I, Comrade Opaluwa Eleojo Simeon, hereby move the motion for the total ban on all the activities of these Okada Boys on the Nyanya – Mararara – Keffi corridor of this all important road.

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