kunleweb:
Governor Sanwo Olu. Okada riding and Keke driving is almost the only means of livelihood for people in Apapa and Ijora axis.


Please restrain your show of force against this people. Please I'm pleading. Just the sight in the second picture says it all. How these people have against all odds clinched to hope in the hope of a better live through honest living


Let's put an end to these elitist principles that Rob's people of decent livelihood. Regulate not kill them. Go to Ikorodu axis, from agric to Isawo, agric, bayeku, move towards oke ira in Ogba, Badore, Awoyaya, Badore, Sangotedo,Ijesha to Lawanson to Ojuelegba to Sabi, central , inner Yaba routes, Onipanu, Shomolu, Palm Grove, Maryland. Please answer me the state government. If you know these areas at all.


Allow me to also mention residents of Omuokoko, Agbara, Sango axis,Kola, Agbado,Ipaja,Egbeda, Badagry, Alaba do the officials of Lagos understand the inner workings of these routes atall



Let's be gentle with the forceful approach to life's issues. These are humans. If Lagos State has alternatives, let them register their bikes and then present them after which the buses will or whatever new considerations the government have in mind be presented to these people so they can have their livelihoods and dignity intact than the use of militralistic force against human beings for the sakes of humanity. Please


I hope this is respectful of the government's desire to effect a change towards a better more improved system. We're only saying things should be done in phases.

dazzlingd:


It's not by force they stay in lagos....the law has said it does not want them again....simple!!!!

Kendumazy:
I really feel for the investors of OPAY AND GOKADA. A wrong investment this would be for them and this sends a wrong signal to foreign investors.

Dunnigrace:



Sir, I trekked from Ilepo to Oshodi


Ikeja to Oshodi is still an easy exercise

obama30:




check if your mentally ok upon your education? So because of Malians, Nigeriens, chandian's, Sudanese Beninese and Togolese that has taken Okada business and polluting Lagos we should allow them to because is there meanshood? If anyone feel lagos banning okada is bad let the person relocate to Abuja for Okada business. I am no a Yoruba but i enjoy the banning of Okada in lagos. Okada has been ban in many Eastern state and heaven didn't fall, what about Abuja and other state why should Lagos own be different. please Mr. governor rehabilitate prison for anyone that will disturbed Lagos resident because of Okada issue. I have never see other nation's fighting for Nigerians living in their country, is only in Nigerian we fight for foreigners. 90% of okada riders in lagos are from mention nation is time they go back where they come from, Lagos is not a dumping ground they can relocate to north because all the foreigners speak Hausa in day time and their original language in their shanties. Sawolu I support this move even thought it come late

dazzlingd:

All the people that say NO to a sane society are free to go to hell!!!!

And some people are sympathizing with these okadas....very dangerous people...the disadvantage of keke and okadas obviously outweigh the advantages.

They pose a serious security threat ...

Kallmerb:
The truth is the Government is for the people in Government not everyday Masses....

Imagine trekking to oshodi FROM ikeja

nextstep:


Yes, the Gov of Lagos should allow any Nigerian free movement within their own country to work in any legal field they want. If there's a demand, and there's supply, all government need do is regulate so that all sides benefit.

Lagos has more people than infrastructure to move them. Lagos is great because of all the people who pour their lives, productivity, hardwork into it. All the factories, banks, real estate, ports, and eventually government taxes, are a result of people's labor.

What big cities around the world have done is invest massively into public transportation (e.g bus, trains), not try to limit who can come. Tokyo, New York, London are massive cities that benefit from their large populations. When government provides good transportation infrastructure (which includes good roads all over), and people have a convenient, safe, and affordable mode of getting around, there won't be a need for okada, and so the the supply will dry up on its own.

What insane governments do - like we have a lot of in Nigeria - is to blanket ban without giving alternatives, without proper long-term planning. I remember when they started the odd-even plate number system to reduce traffic congestion... those who could simply bought two cars, some just bought a second plate (and paid bribe anytime they were caught), and the rest who could not simply suffered on the days they could not drive. Invest in the same things sane governments have, no... let's ban.

yusufu16:


I don't know why some Nigeriens always bring sentiments and sympathy to anything good. So the Gov. should allow any dick and harry from all over the country to come to Lagos just because they have families to carter for.

There are other businesses people can do aside okada/keke riding to survive in Lagos. We need to support the government on this.

yusufu16:


I don't know why some Nigeriens always bring sentiments and sympathy to anything good. So the Gov. should allow any dick and harry from all over the country to come to Lagos just because they have families to carter for.

There are other businesses people can do aside okada/keke riding to survive in Lagos. We need to support the government on this.

Kendumazy:
I really feel for the investors of OPAY AND GOKADA. A wrong investment this would be for them and this sends a wrong signal to foreign investors.

OlujobaSamuel:

The law was there before investing in the business, silence of the law doesn't mean nonexistent. They should blame themselves not unstable government policy.

KingAzari:


Which yeye foreign investor would come and invest in an unlawful business?

BabyApple:
I work as a tricycle rider. We trekked from Oyingbo to Ikeja to protest .. We were not attended to. Sanwo olu don finish me

obama30:




check if your mentally ok upon your education? So because of Malians, Nigeriens, chandian's, Sudanese Beninese and Togolese that has taken Okada business and polluting Lagos we should allow them to because is there meanshood? If anyone feel lagos banning okada is bad let the person relocate to Abuja for Okada business. I am no a Yoruba but i enjoy the banning of Okada in lagos. Okada has been ban in many Eastern state and heaven didn't fall, what about Abuja and other state why should Lagos own be different. please Mr. governor rehabilitate prison for anyone that will disturbed Lagos resident because of Okada issue. I have never see other nation's fighting for Nigerians living in their country, is only in Nigerian we fight for foreigners. 90% of okada riders in lagos are from mention nation is time they go back where they come from, Lagos is not a dumping ground they can relocate to north because all the foreigners speak Hausa in day time and their original language in their shanties. Sawolu I support this move even thought it come late

philip0906:

What law please? The Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law 2018, which restricts motorcycles from operating on major highways in the state but however makes an exception for motorcycles with engine capacity above 200cc which is exactly what the ride hailing startups use.

So what law are you talking about?

kunleweb:
Governor Sanwo Olu. Okada riding and Keke driving is almost the only means of livelihood for people in Apapa and Ijora axis.


Please restrain your show of force against this people. Please I'm pleading. Just the sight in the second picture says it all. How these people have against all odds clinched to hope in the hope of a better live through honest living


Let's put an end to these elitist principles that Rob's people of decent livelihood. Regulate not kill them. Go to Ikorodu axis, from agric to Isawo, agric, bayeku, move towards oke ira in Ogba, Badore, Awoyaya, Badore, Sangotedo,Ijesha to Lawanson to Ojuelegba to Sabi, central , inner Yaba routes, Onipanu, Shomolu, Palm Grove, Maryland. Please answer me the state government. If you know these areas at all.


Allow me to also mention residents of Omuokoko, Agbara, Sango axis,Kola, Agbado,Ipaja,Egbeda, Badagry, Alaba do the officials of Lagos understand the inner workings of these routes atall



Let's be gentle with the forceful approach to life's issues. These are humans. If Lagos State has alternatives, let them register their bikes and then present them after which the buses will or whatever new considerations the government have in mind be presented to these people so they can have their livelihoods and dignity intact than the use of militralistic force against human beings for the sakes of humanity. Please


I hope this is respectful of the government's desire to effect a change towards a better more improved system. We're only saying things should be done in phases.

OlujobaSamuel:

I might be wrong, but I think that classification was for personal use and not passenger ride, because I can still recollect seeing some road signs having a no bike with passenger sign on it.

tiger28:
The MAIN question with you Africans is ......HOW MANY of these riders EVER paid ANY income tax ?YET most of them will come here on NL and talk trash about Nigeria.....Have you paid your tax?

philip0906:

You're wrong.

Same Opay, Gokada had been in talks with the hypocritical Lagos state government amidst talk to collaborate with the state and were even praised by the state government...Then boom, from no where, this senseless policy came.

I have no problem with banning all those riff raff okada riders...but banning startups adding quantifiable value, abiding by the law, investing in the state is outright insanity.

OlujobaSamuel:

If that is the case, then they have a right to sue or they can enter into dialogue with the state to avoid litigation stress

dazzlingd:
All the people that say NO to a sane society are free to go to hell!!!!

And some people are sympathizing with these okadas....very dangerous people...the disadvantage of keke and okadas obviously outweigh the advantages.

They pose a serious security threat ...


Modified: for those enemies of sanity, lovers of disorderliness, commotion and confusion quoting me,...

Pls is okada business the only business nigerians can do...is it the alpha and omega, the one and only, the messiah and saviour of our race?? Without okada business, nigerians cannot survive? Why are u such pathetic lowly thinkers, poverty is indeed beyond bank account, it is indeed a bastard of the mind...
I weep for your mindsets...

Okada must go, if e pain u, relocate to Niger or chad

Kendumazy:
I really feel for the investors of OPAY AND GOKADA. A wrong investment this would be for them and this sends a wrong signal to foreign investors.