Gunshots were fired on Friday when motorcycle riders and police officers clashed in the Oke-Ira area of Ogba, Lagos state.
According to residents, the police officers, who are officials of the state task force, were in the area to enforce the ban on motorcycle riders along some major roads in the state.
The motorcycle riders were said to have resisted the task force officials, while one of the police officers was alleged to have shot a rider. This was said to have escalated the clash between the policemen and the riders.
The clash had caused pandemonium in the area as residents and passers-by scampered for safety.
A resident told TheCable that normalcy has been restored and commercial activities have resumed in the area — but the motorcycle riders are no longer on the roads.
On Thursday, the task force had raided Yaba, Oyingbo, and Surulere areas of the state to confiscate motorcycles plying the major highways and restricted routes.
The officers also retrieved dangerous weapons from some of the riders who tried to attack them.
On April 26, several persons were injured and some feared dead when members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and motorcycle riders clashed in the Iyano-Iba area of the state.
