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Court throws out suit challenging Lagos okada, keke ‘ban’

okada’ riders in Lagos

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has dismissed a suit by a lawyer challenging the Lagos State Government’s restriction of commercial motorcycles (okada) and tricycles (Keke NAPEP) from some of its roads.

Justice Akintayo Aluko held that the applicant, Julius Ajibulu, “failed woefully” in his bid to reverse the ban.

The ban has been in place since 2018.

The judge held that Ajibulu also failed, among others, to establish that the Lagos State Government has no power to ban the operation of tricycles and motorcycles in respect of the designated roads in the state.
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 The judgment followed the Plaintiff’s suit marked FHC/L/CS/1389/2020 against the Governor of Lagos State, Attorney General of Lagos State, Commissioner for Transportation and Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly as 1st to fourth defendants respectively.

Lagos State had on Monday, January 27, 2020, moved against commercial motorcycles (Okada) and tricycles (Keke NAPEP), proscribing their operations in six Local Government Areas (LGAs), nine Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) and 10 major highways across the state with effect from February 1, 2020.

The government directed security operatives to embark on a total enforcement of the State’s Transport Sector Reform Law of 2018 to immediately address the chaos and disorderliness created by illegal operations of okada and tricycle riders in restricted areas.

 The government also banned Okada and tricycles from plying 40 bridges and flyovers across the State.

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