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‘Guerilla warfare’
Back to the streets: Okada operators have taken over the overpass bridge of the Lagos red line rail in Ikeja-Along, the Whistler reported. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in May 2022, had banned okadas, commercial motorcycles, in six local government areas indefinitely, including in Ikeja. But it appears enforcement of the ban has proved difficult.
Quotable: “They’ve turned it into a kind of guerrilla warfare,” a spokesperson for a state taskforce mandated to enforce the ban, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, said. “When we advance, they retreat; when they see us coming, they retreat. When they know we’re not around the corner, or maybe we’ve gone for another operation somewhere else, you see some of them …
