Following the ban of motorcyclists popularly known as okada from major roads in Lagos, a Yoruba group, O’odua Nationalist Coalition, ONAC, has called for a five-year long term plan to completely oust Okada as a means of transportation in the South West region.
Mr Olalekan Agbana, who spoke on behalf of the group, at a press conference in Lagos said that the disadvantages associated with the usage of motorcycle as one of the means of transportation and economic survival overpower its advantages.
Agbana added that okada operations have resulted to a serious mass influx of people into the region, especially Lagos,which has caused serious threat to the environment, the people and their property.
He said, ”We have been reliably informed that some fundamentalists raise their funds from Okada riders. You will recollect that Boko Haram recently said it has 2000 fighters in Lagos. Where are the fighters, where do they live and which job do they do?
”With over 500,000 migrants armed with knives and daggers, what is the future of the people of Lagos, if suddenly there is a major ethnic strife in an increasingly fragile state like ours?”
The group appealed to all Okada riders in the region, to support government initiatives and look for another means of survival.
ONAC called on the South West states to seek the intervention of the Federal Government in dealing with the “reckless chains of illegal migration into Nigeria from troubled zones in the Horn of Africa to the Southern Nigerian states, considering the serious implications on security”
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