Lagos State Taskforce has on Tuesday, June 21 announced that it’s set to crush 250 power bikes and dispatch bikes confiscated for breaching traffic laws in the state.
The Chairman of the Agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye stated that power bikes and dispatch bikes whose capacity were above the required standard were confiscated for either driving against traffic (one-way), conveying of passengers on dispatch bikes and riding on the BRT corridor in the state.
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The clarified that even though the ban focused mainly on commercial motorcycles, the State Transport Sector reform laws prohibited any bikes of any capacity from riding one-way.
In his words:
Riding a power bike doesn’t make you immune to traffic laws of the State, especially when it has to do with riding against traffic on one-way which is highly dangerous to road users and even pedestrians. Any motorbike violating the State traffic laws will be met with the same level of punishment as the Okada of lower capacity.
We have made series of arrests of dispatch bikes whose riders either convey passengers even with the delivery box still mounted on the bike or sometimes disassemble the box and convey the passengers with the bikes.
Unfortunately, some of the owners of these bikes do not know that their bikes have been confiscated because the riders usually abandon the bikes once apprehended by our officers.
Jejeloye advised all dispatch/delivery bike operators to warn and sensitizes their riders thoroughly to desist from lifting passengers with their bikes or risk forfeiting the bikes to the state government.
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He also urged power bike riders to obey traffic laws of the state highways as no bike would be spared once caught violating the law.
It was gathered that the 250 bikes seized by the agency, will be crushed over the weekend at the Taskforce crushing site in Alausa.
