Commercial motorcyclists in Lagos, over the weekend, physically assaulted operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences, wounding four.
Media report has it that enforcement operatives of the Agency were in continuation of the State's official assignment of clamping down on motorcyclists contravening the laws on plying restricted routes in some major roads in the metropolis when the erring cyclists went on rampage and hauled them with items like stones, iron rods and bottles.
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| Injured operative of the Lagos Task Force on Environmental Sanitation |
Meanwhile, the Agency got the express order of the state Commissioner of Police, CP Zubairu Muaza, to arraign the seven suspects arrested for the alleged open confrontation in court for obstructing government workers from carrying out their lawful duties, assault occasioning harm and contravening the laws prohibiting their operations in designated routes, to serve as a deterrent to others.
While condemning the attack, the CP warned that the Police under his watch would not tolerate criminal attacks and assaults on its personnel or facilities.
However, 92 motorcycles were impounded in the operation, the Agency disclosed in a press release made available to this medium by its Public Relations Officer, Adebayo Taofik.
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| Rampaging Okada riders |
The attack, it was gathered, took place around Lekki Phase 1, during which two police officers sustained head injuries while the other two victims, both paramilitary men attached to the Agency, were injured on the legs.
According to the Agency's Chairman, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, the enforcement operatives had the directives of the Agency to carry out an operation around Oworonsoki, Adeniji Adele junction, Obalende, Falomo, Lekki Phase (1) and Ikoyi link-bridge area of the State on the fateful day when some suspected motorcyclists called for reinforcement among themselves, using their various dialects.
In no time, Crimepuzzle learnt, the entire area had been filled with Okada riders, who bombarded the law officers, pelting them with all sorts of objects, resulting in the serious injuries sustained by his men.
Egbeyemi has, however, urged other relevant stakeholders to support the Agency in its efforts to curb the 'okada' menace, saying it was in the best interests of all and sundry, giving the life-threatening risk of shuttling and struggling right of ways on highways with motorists.
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