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.

Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Ado Bayero     Mazars Consulting     Share     First Lady     Saka Adeyemo     Olayinka Are     PharmAccess Foundation     Mahee Abdulkadir     Gbugbu International Market     Kwara State Football Association     Ahman Pategi     Kwara NIPR     Quarry Royal Valley     Femi Oladiji     Gbugbu     Ajayi Okasanmi     Fola Consultant     Cassava Growers\' Association     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Oko-Erin     Kamaldeen Gambari     Dasuki Belgore     Olatunji Bamgbola     Maigidasanma     Makama Of Ilorin     KSIRS     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Yomi Adeboye     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Yusuf Lanre Badmus     Busari Alabi Alausa     Erubu     Rotimi Atere     CBT     Oyawoye     Abdulhakeem Amao     Olayinka Olaogun     Tunde Oyawoye     Iyeru Grammar School     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Aremu Bose Deborah     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Taiwo Joseph     Presidential Election     Musa Alhassan Buge     Tunde Saad     Young Progressives Party     Law School Scholarship     2017 Budget     Ayo Opadokun     Kwara 2019     Garment Factory     Mubarak Oladosu     Ariyo     Vasolar     Police Commissioner     KwaraLearn     Mohammed Ibrahim     ASMAU PLAZA     Alabi Lawal     Folaranmi Aro     Peter Obi     TVC Female National Debate     Clement Yomi Adeboye     John Olajide Adedipe     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Hamza Usman     Buari Edun     Omotosho     Bayo Lawal     Tanke Road     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     3MTT     Yoonus Lawal     Ahman Patigi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Al-Hikmah Radio     Rabiu Kwankwaso     PharmAccess Foundation     Sabi     Ilorin West     Kabir Shagaya     Yusuf Abubakar     Shao     Bola Sagaya     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Saliu Oluwole     Kwara State Governor     Saka Isau     Manzuma     Kolawole Akande     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Hamid Bobboyi     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     AGILE Programme     Salman Jawondo     V.O. Abioye     Adanla-Irese     Bashir Adigun     Oke-Odo     March 28     Kwara State Government     Wahab Egbewole     Rachael Obisesan     Age AbdulKareem     Naira Redesign     Bello Bature     Hauwa Nuru     Ibrahim Mashood     Omu Aran     Abdullahi Biffo     Eleja     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Mutawali     Omotoso Musa     Ahmed \'Lateef     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Wasiu Onidugbe     Offa     Femi Ogunsola     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Idris Garuba     Salake     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Olaitan Buraimoh     Atiku Abubakar     Binta Sulyman     Gbenga Adebayo     Elerinjare     Muslim Cementary     08001000100     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     NFAI     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Saraki     NIPOGA     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Harafat E. Mukadam     Makama     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Olohungbebe     Mahe Abdulkadir     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     John Mayokun Dada     Isiaka Yusuf     Mamatu Abdullahi     Orisun Igbomina     Suleiman Mora Omar