Lagos State Task Force has ordered owners/operators of commercial
motorbikes popularly Gokada and Maxokada to direct their riders to
comply with the Lagos State Road Traffic Laws of 2012, just as it
impounded 23 motorbikes on restricted routes and arrested 10 riders.
Chairman, Lagos State Task Force, Olayinka Egbeyemi, disclosed this
during enforcement operations on motorcyclists operating on restricted
routes as well as those driving against one-way traffic around Ikeja,
Ojota and Maryland.
Egbeyemi said
out of 115 motorcycles impounded during the enforcement
operations, 22 belonged to Gokada and Maxokada, adding their violation
of traffic regulations by the motorcycle operators is illegal as they do
not have valid documentation backing their operations in the state.
He reiterated that in accordance with the law no commercial
motorcycle operator is allowed to operate around 475 restricted routes
including highways and bridges across the state.
“Lagos State Government enjoins members of the public to henceforth
desist from patronising commercial motorcyclists on all restricted
routes as passengers are also liable to prosecution.”
“It was an eye-sore seeing operators of these newly branded
commercial motorcycles (Gokada/Maxokada) struggling with motorists for
the right of way on our highways and bridges across the state,” he said.
The chairman added that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police,
Zubairu Muazu, has directed the immediate prosecution of the arrested
riders.
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