Reacting to the ban of motorcycles in Lagos, a commercial motorcycle riders’ union has sued the Lagos State Government before the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.
The union, under the umbrella of the Motorcycle Transport Union of Nigeria, MTUN, and others in the suit are agitating that the ban on okada “is illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional.”
The applicants also said that the ban on commercial motorcyclists in Lagos by the government “is a violation of the rights of the applicants guaranteed by Section 33 of the 1999 Constitution as amended, who cannot be alive without food and other means of sustenance and whose income is the business of commercial motorcycle transportation.
Alternatively, they prayed the court to grant an order compelling the government to provide jobs for the teeming commercial motorcycle riders in the state.
In the affidavit in support of the application, sworn to by one Pastor Emmanuel Donatus, he stressed that what the government should have done is look for ways to regulate the activities and operations of the riders, by so doing, motorcycle related crimes will be reduced.
