Update: Okada Riders Protest: Normalcy returns to Lekki Phase 1 – Police

The Lagos State Police Command said on Wednesday that it had quelled the protest by commercial motorcyclists, otherwise called “Okada riders” at Lekki Phase I in Lagos.

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Kenneth Nwosu, told NAN that the force on getting the report deployed its men to quell the demonstration which began around 2 p.m. had paralysed commercial activities at the area.

''There is a demonstration by some members of the Okada riders group after the Lekki Residents Association said they don’t want Okada to operate in their neighbourhood. The association said they only want tricycles to operate there as using commercial motorcycles encouraged criminality there. The Okada riders then decided to breach the peace of the neighbourhood and our men had to pick them up. People should learn to be lawful; you can’t compel a particular set of people to tow a particular line which they don’t like. They have said they don’t want Okada in their neighbourhood, then they should go to another neighbourhood where Okada is accepted,” Nwosu said.

There are also reports that gunshots were heard but it was not clear if it was from the security officials or the Okada riders..

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