Commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as Okada riders, have embarked on sooner or later fasting in Ikom Town, in Ikom LGA of Cross River State.
The sooner or later cheap is compulsory and severely enforced by way of officers of the Okada Riders Association in town.
Okada riders spoken to in Ikom Town stated they generally growth the non secular billing as soon as every week.
One of them, 40-year-old Maxwell Nsan, stated the processor of the cheap is to urge them and avert untoward occasions like injuries and theft assaults.
“The weekly fast is often strictly enforced. We will converge at a particular venue to pray while we fast. During this time no Okada riders is to be seen playing the road with passengers, else serious sanctions are applied against offenders,”he stated.
Nsan testified that he has noticed the consequences of the weekly cheap as he, together with his colleagues, have rarely encountered cutback costly incidents in the marginal of his paintings.
The DPO of Ikom Town, CSP Abdulrahman Lagbe and contact of Ikom LGA, Pastor Mercy Nsor, showed the documentation in crimes in their explore owing to the grace of God.
The DPO spoke about enter in Ikom and that prayers can proceed to incur connect crimes.
“I can tell you that crimes have reduced in Ikom but despite that your prayers will help us while we also intensify our approaches to stem crimes. As a Muslim, I know that without God and prayers you cannot succeed. Our responsibility is to provide security but it is God who secures us,” he stated.
