Keke, Okada Ban Will Worsen Crime Rate In Enugu -Mbaka

Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry in Enugu, Nigeria, has opposed Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s decision to ban the operation of motorbikes known as Okadas, tricycles, and dump trucks in three local government areas of the state.

According to the Catholic priest, the governor made the decision without considering the ban’s ramifications or its impact on the impoverished.

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After an emergency security meeting on Thursday, Ugwuanyi signed Executive Order No.1: 2022, prohibiting tricycle (Keke), motorcycle (Okada), and tipper-truck operations in the entire Nkanu East, Nkanu West, and other communities in the Enugu South Local Government Area.

However, in a video message acquired by our correspondent on Sunday, Mbaka urged the governor to lift the restriction, warning of the catastrophic consequences that could result.

“I have been pleading and requesting that they free Nnamdi Kanu,” Mbaka stated. It looked that once Nnamdi Kanu was captured, the banditry, turmoil, and killings would end; yet, things worsened after he was jailed. The situation is deteriorating by the day, demonstrating that detaining him will not solve the problem.

“Anyone who enacts a legislation that should not be enacted should expect to suffer the consequences.” The unfortunate people should not be made to suffer indefinitely. And I’m pleading with Enugu State’s leaders, “There is no job.”

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“Some people’s parents, wives, and children will not eat if they don’t go out with their Keke. Their sickly mothers refuse to take any medication. If you catch a Keke individual committing a crime, you must punish them. You can’t apply the sin of one person to everyone. No.”