An angry Lagos resident has lashed out at the state government and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu over the ban on motorcycles popularly known as Okada and tricycles better known as Keke.

@Thesibbyl in a thread of tweets lambasted the governor after claiming she trekked for 43 minutes ‘through excruciating stomach cramps’ to arrive at her destination because Okada and Keke have been proscribed.

The ban on the operation of Keke and Okada, which many Lagosians claimed has been saving them from the stress of moving around the city with notorious traffic, takes effect today.

The ban is effective in 15 local government areas and local council development areas as well as some major highways and bridges.

Among the reasons given by the government for banning their operation included the high rate of accidents caused by the recklessness of the riders on the highway.

WuzupNigeria reported earlier that some Lagos residents have taken to social media to share the difficulty experienced in moving around the city since the ban became effective on Saturday.

@TheSibbyl, while cussing out at Sanwo-Olu for not considering the plight of the masses before announcing the ban, said aside from jobs that will be lost, it is wrong to place a ban without providing an alternative.

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She wrote:

“Fuck you @jidesanwoolu for making me walk for 42.50 minutes to my destination, through excruciating stomach cramps. I spent a good part of that time cussing you and your moronic band of advisors out, so it’s just as well that I say it to your handle. Fuck you for the suffering!

“Fuck you brain addled people who come up with half baked ideas that never do anything but cause undue stress and suffering on citizens. You & your team obviously need lobotomies to scoop out your brain cells since it doesn’t work in the manner it should.

“You think it’s about ridding the state of bikes? Did you think of the people you tossed out of work? Or the people who have no cars but rely on bikes to get to work? Do you know the bus routes in your state? Do you know how many buses I encountered on my way in 45 mins? 4! Full.

“Or you imagine like some idiot opined, that walking would make us healthy? Do you know what that kind of added stress does to ones day? I bet you don’t, seeing as you run about in tinted Jeeps, sirens and soldiers tearing people out of your path. Can you walk for 45 mins, Jide?

“Or you imagined that private motorists would step in to fill the gap of bikes? You expect them to see people trudging along the roadside & stop to pick em up cos they look like they need help? In these times when thieves roam? What were you lots thinking? Oh wait, y’all DID NOT!

“How the fuck, Sir, do you expect productivity to fare in work places if people have to walk to get out of their residential areas, use a bus for half the journey, then walk to their offices? Why don’t you people ever think of the masses? What is so difficult about thinking of us?

“If you Nigerian politicians thought things through and in good conscience, most of the issues we have today would be non-issues. A 13 year old knows you don’t ban bikes without alternative means, but you and your advisers want me to believe you are dumber than a teen? How, ffs!

“Now that your roads are free, do you think Lagos is an improved state? You lot fixate on cosmetic changes while ignoring the termites eating at the wood and causing it to rot from the inside. Let me break it you; LAGOS IS A GLORIFIED SLUM and highbrow buildings cannot change that

“I hope you can truly imagine the hell you’ve put us all through. And by us, I mean these riders for whom this is a way to feed families and people like myself for whom it is a means to being productive enough to earn. I beg you with all your existing pardon, rethink this rule.”