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Okada Riders Are Riding Us

By Ibrahim Adey
Opinion Okada Riders Are Riding Us
OCT 24, 2014 LISTEN

Okada is a name derived from a Nigerian based Airline Operator called Okada Airlines, because of its efficiency, on time delivery of Passengers, Cargoes and the state of the art equipment deployed to operate by these Airlines it was assumes to be the best at the time Okada business came to being in Nigeria.

This is one of the reasons the business was nicknamed after this airline. The Okada Business Spread from the Neighboring Country to Nigeria like Benin and Togo, today it has spread to Ghana. If there is a Bad Transport Operator than the Konongo kaya in our history this name could have being adopted for the operators of Motor bike as a means of Transporting passengers and goods for Commercial Purposes in Accra Ghana.

Despite the Government disapproval the Business thrives charging exorbitant rates compared to their counterpart in other Country like Togo, Benin and Nigeria where they charged the approve fare as single passengers boarding a vehicle, But what we see in Accra, they charge the rate of hiring cars for an Instance from Accra Central Mokola market to Agbogbloshie taxi dropping is around three cedes and also Okada riders also charge three cedes or more. Apart from exorbitant rates they charge, traffic law and regulation are not adhere to, some ride under the influence of Alcohol thereby causing accidents, there is need to have a background check of these riders but since their operation is outlawed which Authority will undertakes this checks?

We hope the Government will take a second look at the banning of Okada riders so that their operation will be streamline, even if we don't need their service in the city and we are able to arrest all of them operating in the city and bound them in prison what of those in remote rural arrears where there is no definite road transport network system that is consistent, We expect Government to put necessary infrastructure in place to discourage commuters patronizing the Okada Business and our Legislators putting together a realistic law not a paper Tiger law.

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