Taskforce Impounds 359 Okada, Demolishes Shanties.

Lagos State Taskforce has commenced demolition of illegal shanties and dislodgment of defiant squatters numbering several hundreds, along Fagba corridor in ongoing clean-up exercise after the launch of the Red Line Rail project of the state government.

In the process, the enforcement team of the taskforce impounded a total of 359 commercial motorcycles popularly called “Okada” that operated on restricted routes, state highways and bridges located in those areas and several shanties that have sprung up again along Fagba Rail track.

Chairman of the agency, Chief Super intedent of Police, Shola Jejeloye, covered areas like; Fagba Rail Track, Iju-Ishaga, Abbatoir and Pen Cinema.

Jejeloye, explained that during enforcement, miscreants who loiter around the abbatoir supported the Okada operators in resisting arrest and causing mayhem to prevent the confiscation of the bikes but were subdued by the tactical and combatant superiority of the taskforce.

Jejeloye, disclosed that the confiscation of Okada would go a long way in reducing crime and incidents of bag snatching which most perpetrators make use of Okada as a get-away means.