Kwara police braces up for influx of displaced Okada riders from Lagos

Date: 2022-05-20

Authorities of the Kwara State police command are bracing up to mitigate the effects of the likely influx of banned commercial Okada riders from Lagos State to Kwara State.

To this end, the State Police Command has summoned all Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) in the State to an emergency meeting to map out strategies to checkmate the likely consequences of the influx of the displaced Okada riders into the State.

The meeting is at the instance of the State Commissioner of Police, Tuesday Assayomo, and slated for next week Thursday, at the command Headquarters in Ilorin.

Spokesman of the State police command, Ajayi Okasanmi, informed DAILY POST that the scheduled meeting would provide the police authorities an opportunity to map out strategies with DPOs in the event of likely spillover effects of the ban on commercial Okada riders in Lagos.

Okasanmi said due to the contiguous nature of Kwara to Lagos, there might likely be an influx of people into the State as a result of the ban on Okada operation in some areas of Lagos State.

Recall that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, announced the ban on the operation of commercial motorcycle riders in six Local Government Councils and nine Local Government Development Areas in the State, effective from June 1, 2022.

The affected councils include Eti-Osa, Ikeja, Surulere, Lagos Island, Lagos Mainland , Apapa, among others.

Okasanmi disclosed that while the displaced Okada riders would be allowed access into the State, in accordance with their constitutional rights, the police command would not condone nuisance and criminality from any of them.

“We are aware, and incidentally this is not the first time that the Lagos State government will be banning the operation of Okada in Lagos.

“We know that anything that happens in Lagos, Kwara State is almost the next port of call for all those people driven from there because we have almost the same developmental agenda in Lagos and Kwara.

“The Kwara State Police Command has actually put in place the strategy to curtail whatever excesses they may want to come and portend in the State. But the fact remains that there is freedom of movement as far as the nation's constitution is concerned. You are free to go anywhere and ply your trade so far you are law abiding,” he stated.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Simeon Sayomi     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Igosun     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Kwara State Television     Ajase-Ipo     Crystal Corner Shops     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Shehu Jimoh     Bola Shagaya     Sidikat Alaya     Mohammed Halidu     Azeez Salawu     Post Utme     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     John Olajide Adedipe     Iqra Books     African Democratic Congress     Hussein Olokooba     Harafat E. Mukadam     Olatunji Moronfoye     Shuaibu Yaman     University Road     Oba-Solagberu     Press Release     ER-KANG Mining     Musa Yeketi     Students Union Government     Trader Moni     Fawenu     Wale Oladepo     Aremu Bose Deborah     Musbau A. Akanji     College Of Health     United Nigeria Congress Party     Funmilayo Oniwa     Wahab Egbewole     Communication Network Support Services     Niyi Ogundiran     Funke Adedoyin     Jumoke F. Ajao     Jawondo     Iyeru Grammar School     Shagari     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Taofeeq Olateju     Oloje     Fatimat Saliu     Kassim Babamale     John Dara     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Alaro     Salihu S. Yaru     Ijakadi     Belgore     Budo-Egba     Umar Adelodun     New Nigeria People’s Party     Ola Falade     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Tunde Kazeem     Garba Dogo     Amasa     Dumagi     Yinka Aluko     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Radio SBS     Ajike People Support Centre     Lanre Aremu     Bello John Olanrewaju     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Hamidu Olowo    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Lai Mohammed     3MTT     Amada Jidda     Awwal Jawondo     Funmilayo Braithwaite     BECE     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Charles Ibitoye     Illyasu Abdullahi     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Kolo     NULGE     Kassim Babamale     Ayodele Shittu     Modibbo Kawu     Khairat Gwadabe     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Saidu Yaro Musa     Alapansapa     James Ayeni     Elekoyangan     Modupe Oluwole     Kwabes     ARMTI     Kayode Bankole     Rotimi Atere     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     John Dara     Twitter     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Egbejila     Oke-Oyi     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Tosho Yaqub     Mohammed Yisa     Shehu Jimoh     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Minimum Wage     Yakubu Dogara     Hassan Taiye Salam     Marafan Shonga     Charcoal     Alfa Belgore     Talaka Parapo     Ifelodun     Dele Belgore     Odolaye Aremu     Ghali Muhammed     Ayodele Olaosebikan     ER-KANG     Adedipe     Taiwo Joseph     Jimoh Akani     Bashirat Bola Bello     CLAY POT     Abiodun Abdulkareem     SSA Youth Engagement     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Haleeman Salman     JMK Construction Company Limited     Mumeen Lah     Ijagbo     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Rotimi Oyedepo     Kayode Alabi     Agor     Oba-Solagberu     Magaji Nda     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Olatunji Ibrahim     Kola Ologbondiyan     Summit University