Policemen, okada riders in bloody clash in Calabar

Hundreds of commercialized motorcycle riders, popularly known arsenic okada, successful the 8 Miles country of Calabar connected Tuesday engaged successful a bloody clash with the police.

The Okada riders embarked connected nationalist protestation successful the neighborhood, condemning high-handedness of the policemen.

During the face-off, galore of the Okada riders sustained bruises erstwhile they struggled to artifact the policemen from confiscating their motorcycles.

They lamented that the policemen successful enforcing bid of the Inspector General of Police to impound vehicles and motorcycles without registration, they besides inflicted injuries connected them.

The protesting Okada riders complained that they bash not interruption immoderate rules, and lone ply interior roads, and should not person been harassed and manhandled by the policemen.

One of the Okada riders who gave his sanction arsenic Timothy Ekpe said, “What the policemen are doing to america is anti-people. We are not violating immoderate of the postulation rules to warrant this harassment by the policemen.

“As they prehend our motorcycles which are the sources of our livelihoods bash they expect america to spell and steal?”

In his connection connected the enforcement of the impoundment, constabulary PRO, ASP Eitokpah Sunday Akata said “The workout is aimed astatine enhancing nationalist safety, improving conveyance identification, and denying transgression elemen...