Okada Ban: Bone Setter Laments Loss Of Customers

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The Benin Traditional Bone Setting Centre said it had lost 80 per cent of its customers to the ban on motorcycles.

Mr Louis Adaa, one of the managers of the centre, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin on Wednesday that the ban had negatively affected the bone setting business due to low patronage.

NAN recalls that Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, southern Nigeria, in a broadcast on 17 June, banned the use of motorcycles for commercial purpose in three local government areas of the state.

Adaa, however, said that despite the declining business, the ban was a welcome development.

“I like the ban on motorbikes because it has helped to reduce road crashes.

“Motorbikes had been boosting my business. The ban is a good development. In another way, I don’t like the ban because it is really affecting my business negatively.

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“Before the ban, we usually received a lot of patients who were involved in motorbike accidents on a daily basis and we were really making good money.

“But now, only few patients come here and they are mainly those involved in domestic accidents. We hardly have patients on a regular basis, one per month,” he said.

Adaa, who did not mention the amount involved, said the business was owned by his father who sent him and his siblings to school with monies realised from it.

“Now that there is a ban, we will adjust. God will always make a way where there is no way,” he said.

 

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