By joshua Ban On Motorcycle In Benin Metropolis For Security Reasons , Says Edo Govt
By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin city
The Edo State Government on Thursday said that the government placed a ban on the movement of motorcycles in the Benin metropolis for security reasons to protect residents of the state.
The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kassim Afegbua stated this on Thursday while speaking to journalists in Benin city.
According to Afegbua, “the reason why this was done was purely for security reasons. And the kind of reports we get on a daily basis have become a security concern to us. People use Okada (motorcycle) to kidnap people, to do robbery. They carry their passengers, they take them to a lonely place and dispossess them of their belongings.” He stated.
Afegbua said, “We are not pretending about it. The reason why this was done was purely for security reasons. And the kind of reports we get on a daily basis have become a security concern to us. People use Okada (motorcycle) to kidnap people, to do robbery. They carry their passengers, they take them to a lonely place and dispossess them of their belongings.”
Speaking on the issues of Davido writing the President Donald Trump on Osun forthcoming election, Afegbua said it was a joke taken too far.
Meanwhile, the state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Eugenia Abdallah,
said more than 70 cases of defilement were recorded in the state between January and July 2026, with fathers of the minors allegedly responsible for over 50 per cent of the cases.
She said: “Mostly, 50 per cent are abused by their own fathers, with the victims ranging 2 to 10 years.
According to her, there is a little girl currently in our custody who was impregnated by her father. She is just 14 years old and is eight months pregnant as we speak. The case was reported to us by a neighbour.
“When we asked her about her father, she told us that she had lost her father and pleaded with us not to have him arrested. Meanwhile, she is the only person who can tell us where her father is.”
The Commissioner, however, expressed the state government’s commitment to ensuring that vulnerable citizens are not merely identified but protected; adding “that survivors are not merely heard but supported; that women are not merely trained but provided opportunities for economic advancement; and that social-protection programmes increasingly produce measurable outcomes.”