Lagos destroys over 3,000 impounded Okada motorcycles

In line with the state’s determination to strictly enforce the traffic law, over 3,000 motorcycles, otherwise called Okada, impounded for various traffic offences by the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Other Special Offences were yesterday, destroyed to pieces by agents of the state government.

Men of the task-force who stormed major highways, particularly went after commercial motorcyclists, popularly called, ‘Okada riders’ who violated the order not to ply bridges.

The exercise which focused on the Third Mainland Bridge axis, led to serious traffic on Funsho Williams Avenue, Ikorodu Road, Oshodi, Yaba, Oyingbo and environs. Source

must they destroy it