Recall that on Saturday, February 1, 2020, the Lagos state government implemented a ban on commercial motorcycles (Okada) and tricycles (Keke) in six local governments and this as left many residents stranded and put motorbike hailing services out of business.
Gokada, one of the affected ride-hailing companies, has reacted by restrategising with plan to launch a GoBoat transport service delivery.
Announcing the company’s plans, the CEO, Fahim Saleh, said: “We are pivoting to deliveries while transport gets figured out.
We were always going to do deliveries and had started to develop the tech for it, but this ban accelerated the process.”
Saleh told Tech Cabal that Gokada boat service will launch anytime in February, or “real soon. One 24-passenger boat just came in, and another is sitting at the port waiting to be cleared from customs.” This news comes after reports that the firm had laid off over 50 per cent of its staff just days after the ban.
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