Why Tinubu should not be given the chance to be President

This is about Lagos BRT Fare Reduction: The instant clarity of government theft.

 

Some three years ago, I was oppurtned to be posted to the city of Lagos to undergo my national youth services Corp. A very memorable days of sufferings and happy moments. As a researcher I was earning a good amount of money for a youth corp and interestingly I was spending so much on transport also.

 

The pandemic started some months into my service year, the issue of coronavirus was a pain in the ass, as a youth corp member I had some little help and mostly I didn’t have to go to work even though my field demanded I’m at work.

 

From the start I often take BRT at the rate of N150 to work and N150 back home. A month into COVID the BRT fee was increased by hundreds percent which made it N300. Please kindly remember that salary was not increased since I was working for the government. Because my services was needed and important, plus my brain was what was really needed for my work. The company said I should come three days week.

 

Here comes my pain and annoyance.

 

When the BRT fee got increased, I saw old men and women trekked from half of their distance to the half so they can board a car. Plenty people could not board the BRT anymore. The means of transportation that was supposed to be a relieve for the poor masses, the average earner became something they couldn’t even afford anymore.

 

Some of us continue and we pay the fare because it’s necessary for us to get to our destination of work, home and even places that keeps us connected to our loved ones.

 

Three years later, I’m about to board a BRT and I was surprised they charged me N200 so I had to ask the man at the door if there was an issues with my card. Because I board BRT to mainly at N500 and I’m shocked N200 was deducted.

 

He replied, we fixed it to N200 , everything is now N200 and I was really very angry.

 

If you look at it very correctly you would say I’m an ungrateful Nigerian but I need you to look at it this way.

 

The average pepper seller who needed to get to ojota have suffered to pay for three years, the average cleaner has suffered to pay probably half of their salary to get to a place of work… They had probably suffered and not eaten enough food because they needed to survive and live in Lagos.

 

And today which is three years later, I realized the fee could actually be N200 and nothing would happen to Lagos State government, and enough money would be available for them.

So why the reduction?

 

Because Mr Bola Ahmed Tinubu wants to be president of Nigeria!

 

If you look at it deeply the way of financial planing for the average masses in Lagos is based on selfish ambition of how much the Lagos State government can gain from the poor masses.

 

I do not think such a person who is been priotized as the builder of Lagos which is a mess to be given the chance to fix Nigeria.

 

Tax Paying Lahoshian

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