BRT BUS TERMINAL
512 road junction, Festac town, Lagos.
9.11 a.m.
There is this die hard disposition that the average Nigerian possesses and in extension my fellow Festac citizens. The logic of the thing is admirable but in my opinion, it has been over flogged and stretched senseless. Haba! How can you reconcile the suffering and smiling injunction in today’s 21st century setting? Ok, lemme slow down and cease rambling so you guys can properly understand my grievance. You know that the fashola administration has blessed Festac residents with the addition of the BRT bus to our lives and although we have to pay much more than we would if we opt for the regular ‘danfo’, we appreciate the comfort it affords us. That stated and noted let me continue. Notice the recent trend in the BRT experience and tell me if I am hyperventilating irrationally or not. Anytime you get to the bus terminal in Festac, (it is not exactly anything fancy; just thought that I should apply word play) you find a crowd gathered but no bus. If it was an isolated issue, then I can understand and let it slide but fellow citizens (legal and otherwise) it has become a daily occurrence and I make no exaggeration when I use the word daily.
Can you imagine that we have to wait for over 30 minutes before we can as much as get a glimpse of a bus? You can’t, can you? Proper, regular upstanding citizens of our renowned Festac town subjected to such a mean structured approach to modern transportation. Y’all know me now? After being subjected to two days of this shabby treatment, I revoked my vow of comfort and started trading yarns with my former danfo bus conductor buddies.
Hmmmm. I no fit take nonsense from anybody o!
Whom exactly do you report to about stuff like these, eh?
What I have resorted to do is to put together a strongly worded letter to Gov. Fash and convey my heartfelt vex at the ineptitude of the BRT Festac employees, abi? Maybe, just maybe he’ll reply me back and give me an opportunity to tell my children (clears throat and deepens voice) that the Governor of Lagos state was a close friend of mine. (Winks.)
Opportunity comes but once.
