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Christopher Oji
The Lagos State Task force has impounded 109 commercial motorcycles at the Second Rainbow end of Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, near Mile 2 in Lagos.
A statement signed by the agency’s head of public affairs unit, Adebayo Toafik, said that the state government would also crush 2,500 motorcycles that were impounded on restricted routes in the state.
According to Toafik, the Chairman, Lagos State Task force, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, led the team at the weekend, saying that the enforcement operation was carried out after several warnings to motorcycle riders to desist from operating on restricted routes, particularly highways and bridges across the state.
He disclosed further that series of complaints from the public on illegal and criminal activities of some motorcycle operators has become alarming and must be checked.
“While some of them harassed innocent members of the public at various bus-stops, others engaged in all sorts of criminal acts, like dispossessing their passengers of valuables, such as phones, jeweleries and bags. Again, some of them are equally engaged in traffic robbery. Motorists held in traffic in the morning and at night are not spared.
