The Commercial Motorcycle riders, popularly called Okada, in Lokoja on Thursday embarked on strike over what they described as alleged missing of manhood by mischievous passengers at the State capital.
Our Kogi State Correspondent, reports that the State Chairman of the Okada Riders Association, Mallam Umar Muhammed, who disclosed this while speaking with newsmen, said they have decided to embark on the strike due to allegations leveled against them by passengers.
According to him several Okada commercial riders have been attacked innocently by passengers who are unable to pay for their fare only for them to turn around to accuse Okada riders of missing manhood.
He said that passenger carried by their Okada riders were been labeled of taken away their manhood whenever they got to there destination leading to beating of Okada riders.
” Some of the passenger when they don’t have money to pay, they raise alarm that their manhood is missing so that they will not pay. Instead of them to take the issue to the Police, they will take laws into there hand and beat up the commercial rider. Later, the people to say that there manhood has returned back to his body”.
He, therefore, called on security agencies and the State Government to look into the issue to avoid any problem that could lead to civil unrest in the state.
It was reported that, in the last one week in Kogi State, some suspected ritualist were arrested especially within the state capital Lokoja for allegedly stealing male organs from their victims.
To calm the tensed situation, the Kogi State Police Command, through its Public Relations Officer, SP William Ovye Aya issued a statement on Wednesday night appealing to the general public to remain calm, adding that, anyone caught disturbing the public peace will be prosecuted.
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