Bonesetter loses 80% customers to ban on motorcycles

The Benin Traditional Bone Setting Centre said it had lost 80 per cent
of its customers to the ban on motorcycles.
Louis Adaa, one of the managers of the centre, told the News Agency of
Nigeria in Benin, the Edo State capital, on Wednesday that the ban had
negatively affected the bone setting business due to low patronage.
NAN recalls that Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, in a
broadcast on June 17, banned the use of motorcycles in three local
government areas of the state.
Adaa, however, said that despite the declining business, the ban was a
welcome development.
He said: “I like the ban on motorbikes because it has helped to reduce
road crashes.
“Motorbikes had been boosting my business.
“The ban is a good development.
“In another way, I don’t like the ban because it is really affecting
my business negatively.
“Before the ban, we usually received a lot of patients who were
involved in motorbike accidents on a daily basis and we were really
making good money.
“But now, only few patients come here and they are mainly those
involved in domestic accidents.
“We hardly have patients on a regular basis.
“One per month.”
Adaa, who did not mentioned the amount involved, said the business was
owned by his father who sent him and his siblings to school with
monies realised from it.
“Now that there is a ban, we will adjust. God will always make a way
where there is no way,” he said.