The protesters, who grounded commercial activities at the area, begged the Lagos State Government to take a second look at the traffic laws in the state
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The spokesman for NOPRIN, Okechukwu Nwanguman, noted that such harassments and complaints were rampant in every state, where the state government has been coming down hard on commercial bike riders.
Nwanguma said that NOPRIN had just sent a communication to the Divisional Police Officer, Umuebulu, Rivers State concerning the information it received that one Uko from Ikot Antuk in Abak lga, Akwa Ibom State, a commercial motorcyclist with three kids, who resides and operates in Umuebulu, and one Christopher, a school bus driver with Blessed Child International School, Umuebulu, were shot by police officers attached to Umuebulu Police Station about 8pm on February 27, 2014
The commercial motorcycle riders, popularly known as okada, had planned the protest to show their displeasure over their continued ban from some major roads in Lagos State