A cross section of “Okada” riders
(The Nation)
A pregnant woman in Lagos State has reportedly been rendered unconscious after a commercial motorcycle operator, aka Okada rider, assaulted her.
According to witnesses, the seven-month pregnant victim was left injured along the Lagos-Badagry expressway.
The trouble was said to have started between the two when instead of taking the expectant mother to her destination at the First Gate bus stop, the okada rider stopped at Oluti bus stop.
The man then ordered the woman to get off the bike but instead she grabbed his clothes and eventually his penis to keep him from escaping.
According to Leadership, a witness, identified simply asFeyisara said:
“The pregnant woman, Feyisara said she had paid the okada rider the agreed amount only for him to lie that Alakija was the destination she told him. So, when they reached Alakija, he ordered the woman to get off but she refused insisting that she would get off at her destination.”
“So, when the desperate rider wanted to escape and the woman stopped him, he attempted to remove her hands from his clothes but to no avail. The man parked the machine and forcefully removed her hands,” she added
“The woman said she had no choice than to go after his private part. An action which probably angered the man as he punched her in the neck and the woman fell on a stone and was rolling on the ground when sympathisers saw her and took her to a private hospital. She was bleeding,” Feyisara concluded.
The Okada rider is said to have fled the scene of the incident while the victim eventually regained consciousness at the hospital.
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