Lagos: Group condemns banning of motorcycles
06 June 2022 |
2:51 am
A group, Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), has condemned the banning of motorcycles popularly known as ‘Okada’ in Lagos State without providing alternative means of transport.
A group, Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), has condemned the banning of motorcycles popularly known as ‘Okada’ in Lagos State without providing alternative means of transport.
The group also condemned the use of force and arrest of tricycle riders and passengers.
According to the group, the ban will inflict suffering on workers and poor people who rely on this means of transportation for their daily activities in Lagos State.
It noted that the ban was a face-saving gimmick by the Governor Sanwo-Olu-led Lagos State government to avoid addressing the real issues behind insecurity and transportation crises in Lagos State.
In a statement signed by its National Chairman, Rufus Olusesan and National Publicity Secretary, Chinedu Bosah, the group said the real issues behind insecurity and criminality in Lagos State and Nigeria as a whole are the conditions of mass poverty in the midst of abundance and elite corruption.
According to the group, motorcycle is only one of the means through which this wanton criminality is carried out.
It stated that a city of Lagos State’s size and importance, requires an integrated, publicly-owned and democratically managed transportation system, alongside a modern road network linking residential areas and industrial centres to public highways.
The group stressed that a transport hub is compulsory infrastructural architecture, which will enable ease of movement, end habitual perennial traffic gridlock, aid labour productivity and contribute to citizen’s health and safety.
CDWR called for a public works programme to develop an integrated and democratically-managed public transportation system in Lagos State, expansion of road networks and repair of damaged roads as well as a plan by both state and federal governments to provide alternative jobs and opportunities for all, especially those forced to take up motorcycle riding due to lack of gainful employment, through the provision of basic infrastructure, creation of industries.
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