Some commercial motorcycle riders popularly known as Okada men, on Wednesday caused pandemonium as they blocked a road and caused traffic gridlock while engaging in massive protest.
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There was tension at Iyana-Iba, around the main gate to the Lagos State University, as hundreds of commercial motorcycle riders, otherwise called Okada, barricaded the entire road leading from Lagos to Badagry area of the state.
According to a report by Daily Sun, the Okada riders, who made several bonfires along the expressway, were protesting the seizure of their motorcycles allegedly by men of the state task force.
Human and vehicular movement were disrupted as motorists had to hurriedly make a U-turn and return to where they were coming from.