Oyo to bar Okada riders without ‘coded jackets’ on roads

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Following a surge in criminal activities involving unregistered operators in Oyo State, the State Government, on Saturday, vowed to prosecute and bar any commercial motorcycle rider popularly called an Okada rider operating without a QR code-embedded jacket within the state.


A statement released by the Chairman of the state Traffic Management Authority, Adekoya Adesagba, in Ibadan, the state capital, therefore, urged the residents to patronise only Okada riders with official QR code jackets.



The QR code embedded jackets for Okada riders in Oyo State

He reaffirmed the commitment of the agency to enforcing the policy for the commercial motorcycle riders.


Adesagba explained that recent incidents include armed robbers on an unmarked motorcycle snatching a trader’s earnings at gunpoint in Bodija Market, while a passenger was also robbed by a fake Okada rider in the Challenge Area.

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