06/07/2024
You want to think Lagosians are crazy, but have you met Northerners? I have not been up to 24 hours in the North and my eyes have seen things!
The first thing that greeted me "welcome to Nasarawa" was a man carrying a cow on top of a taxi. I kid you not! He held on to the cow, while the cabu cabu stopped to pick other passengers!
Please, don't ever say Lagos drivers are mad again. Have you met Abuja Drivers?!
As we were driving, these other two drivers were having a go at each other. One was trying to overtake and the other was not having it. As the one driver got a chance and tried to maneuver his way, the other driver swerved and hit his vehicle hard, till it skidded off the road.
Next thing we heard was the driver shouting and screaming "la ilaha illallah! la ilaha illallah!".
Then, we got to Zuba, that's where my eyes saw the worst of the worst.
I comfortably sat in the front seat of the Sienna, because of my leg. All of a sudden, the driver came to ask me if was paying for two people.
I looked at him like, how?!
That's when he told me that two people were supposed to sit at the front.
I jejely removed myself from the front, because where do I get money to pay for two people na?
I now squeezed myself with three other people at the back. Something that when I was travelling, it was just two people in the same Sienna ooo, but in the North, it was four!
As if that was not enough, the driver started the journey.
Bro, this man legit stopped to pick up someone. We were already 10 in the vehicle. Where was this person going to sit?!!
I was thinking the driver was going to put him in the boot or ask him to stay on the roof, because nothing can shock me in this North again.
To my uttermost shock and disbelief, the man asked the guy to come join him in the driver's seat.
This was my face throughout the journey πππ
(C) Kosi Ugo
