Commercial bike riders, commonly known as 'Okada' riders, have again started plying the central business district of Freetown, although a ban placed by the previous administration is still in place.
On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 the Sierra Leone Police (SLP), while presenting a paper and a video clip on the "lawlessness of bike riders in the city" to a Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Internal Affairs, called on the government to "ban Commercial Bike Riders in the city, especially in the central business district of Freetown."
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