With ORide, a service provider can match riders and drivers without learning their identities or location information. ORide offers riders with fairly large anonymity sets (e.g., several thousands), even in sparsely populated areas. Significant on the list is its Ride-hailing vertical Oride, the taxi-hailing platform, Ocar and its food delivery platform, Ofood. This is because they are the most visible. The payment platform, Opay continues to offer financial services to the millions of customers it had already acquired. The Country Manager for OPay in Nigeria, Iniabasi Akpan, has finally reacted to the role ORide played in the temporary shutdown of Gokada‘s (its ride-hailing rival) operation in August 2019. Although the shutdown lasted for two weeks, ORide was identified as one ofthe reasons it happened. ORide was reported to have poached a good number of its top executives and in the end, Gokada’s Co-founder and three others jumped ship. Awolowo Moses was the Co-founder/COO of Gokada but ended up as the Director of Business Operations at ORide... ORide ensures the anonymity ofthe. drivers and riders with respect to SP primarily through the. use of a Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption (SHE) scheme.rider pair inside this zone. The rider is said to be located. at the origin, and let the driver be at coordinates (4,3). An ORide rider waits for a passenger.