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Emeka Nwosu is a 35-year-old Nigerian. He offers in pretty used garments enterprise. On this a part of the world, folks name it okrika enterprise.
The younger man says he’s nearly creating hypertension. He could also be proper, he could also be unsuitable, I have no idea.
However, why the hypertension? I dare requested him the opposite day.
Effectively, the pretty used garments vendor lives in Ifo, Ogun state, Nigeria. However, he shuttles on daily basis to kotangowa market, located at tremendous bustop in Lagos.
Fact is that the market is a well-liked assembly level, the place sellers and merchants meet every day to deal in all kinds of used objects dumped into my beloved nation.
Name it tokunbo or dumping market and also you will not be unsuitable. God bless Nigeria, my beloved nation.
Emeka additionally defined that he wakes up at about 5 am, Monday to Saturday, board the following accessible bus from Ifo inward Lagos, alongside the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway.
At Owode, Iyana-Olopo busstops, alongside the expressway, the storyline line may change, on either side, as motorists, may stay standstill or go-slow for hours.
Hundreds of Emekas plying the route may very well be so pissed off that a few of them could also be pressured to get down from the bus and board cyclists to cross over.
Others might abuse authorities to excessive heavens for subjecting to hardships, poverty.
However, please be aware that Julius Berger, the development large, is presently reconstructing the expressway from Zik busstop in Lagos to Km 60, at the price of N22.39billion. The contract was awarded to the corporate, Could, 14, 2014.
When it rains, the whole route turns into marshy and folks, buses, cyclists, and keke marwa operators, and so forth, both get caught on the busstops or stroll by the marshy grounds.
When the sunshine shines to excessive heavens, it’s a completely different ball recreation as folks and motorists must cowl their eyes and noses for worry of mud. Blindness or cataract begins right here.
Victoria Monday, a confidential secretary, resident in Ewekoro and dealing in Lagos, is without doubt one of the 1000’s of individuals that don’t discover travelling on that route every day, humorous.
The marshy and dusty nature of the route has nearly compelled me to resign my appointment and take up farming, she instructed this author.
Jamiu, a industrial bus driver, is nonetheless grateful for the hell on earth, folks and motorists are passing by alongside the route, every day.
We made numerous cash when it rains, as we’ll enhance the transport fares.
Checks revealed that from Ogun state to Lagos, alongside the expressway, relying on the purpose on entry, bus conductors may acquire N500 to N1000 from every passenger, below the guise that it’s raining.
However, take it or go away it, the stand nonetheless, go-slow, stress, hold-up, enhance in transport fares, marshy grounds, dusty routes, and so forth, are all experiences now we have to move by at this cut-off date to get to the promised land finally.
None of us can escape it. None of us ought to condemn or garbage the federal government of President Muhammed Buhari for making an attempt to re-construct an expressway that has been deserted for years.
I travelled that route 4 instances this week and I found that Julius Berger has readjusted the route to be able to ease the burden of individuals and motorists.
I’m optimistic that we’ll quickly transfer from hell to heaven so far as the problems of re-constructing the expressway is worried. Proceed to wish and meditate for Nigeria.
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Source by Emmanuel Udom