PROTESTING CAB DRIVERS IN CALABAR ALSO OWES THE PASSENGERS

I did not want to imagine that Cross River State has any responsible Taxi Union in place. It’s a good thing that they have poked their heads out to protest now that it concerns them.

As I look forward to the authorities concerned positively responding to their agitations, they in turn should reciprocate and give to the public good and quality service.

Taxi or cabs are a commercial venture, which should deliver adequate services to paying customers.

Meanwhile taxi services in Calabar are treated as if the drivers are doing the public an unmerited favour.

The taxis plying the roads in Calabar are nothing short of rotting coffins. They are not fit for living human conveyance. They are mostly scrap materials assembled in drivable shapes. And if Nigeria was to be a country with an informed and functioning VIO, Vehicle Inspection Office (Institution), these scarecrows would have been long consigned to scrap yards.

Also, the attitudes often displayed by most drivers get one wondering what business they have in business

To say it lightly, it is disheartening staying in Calabar without personal mobility because a State that prides itself of being a tourism hub should at least have a say over what is driven on its road as means of transport as was done during the administration of ex Gov. Donald Duke.

Nowadays, the cabs are smelly, bare of any reasonable cushioning/ furniture, smoky and in very poor conditions. No matter how much expensive perfume you douse yourself with, once you enter most of the cabs in Calabar, you will turn out smelling like kerosene or fowl.

Ouch! A cockroach once climbed the leg of a passenger and one could imagine that it is possible for a snake or another dangerous reptile to endanger the life of a passenger. So what the heck?

 As they protest for their rights, they should remember that they owe Cross Riverians good service and I use this medium to ask the public to demand good and commensurate services henceforth, after all what's good for the transporter is also  good for the passenger.

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