Evening has fallen in the street of Lagos; indeed, it was time
when every employee, artisans in all work of life has to start returning home
from their various places of origin. Indeed, happy hours for some has evolved,
while it is usually a sad one for others since majority of our mode of movement
is indeed on road and the means of transport that majority of the
population uses as channel still remains
commercial vehicular movements. Everyone is looking forward in getting on board
through various routes that are in-existence in every terminal in-demand, in
other to get to their various destinations. Experiences as, to the way things are
done in most unusual manner by those operators of commercial vehicles, that
majority of them, the populace ply during peak period, and where you
don’t even know any agency to lay complains to when the needs arise,
instead, some of those dying cultures is being
allowed to be celebrated without any body questioning what ever is
their sense of judgment on there maintenance and vehicle worthiness in the
cause of their movement from one location to the other is truly one out of many
obstacle we are yet to cross in the annals things that should be done appropriately.
The understanding and
perception about some handlers of commercial vehicle that moves
within our metropolis, who never think of its healthiness and condition of what
is the signs their vehicle is showing before embarking on any journey’’, is
there need for it to be handled before it get out of hand, knowing fully well
that passengers boarding during that peak period would
have being so tired and could not wait a bit, getting home
without any hindrance, more essentially being able to do the needful before
dark in the night are not disappointed, hence evening has fallen,’’’’’’’’ after
weighing the extra-ordinaries that befalls the mode and means at
which our transportation management swings in ,and the manner
with-which some driver’s non challant attitude is, towards managing
its mechanism and ensuring that standard remains
an up-hill task to them and its passengers , and also where
it becomes more problematic to so many passengers on board, and to those who
are willing to get on the move, fundamentally and physically speaking, some of
those vehicle are suppose to be off the roads due to the fact that some
are out rightly old and could not stand the taste of time any more, while in
some cases, some develop mechanical fault persistently with the
know of the driver just because of their greed to part away with some amount of
what the vehicle has being able to produce as a result of going commercial with
it , and for another reason of being selfish amounting
to ignorant at the detriment of its passengers, unfortunately, they
the [drivers] defile all warning signals the vehicle must have been given, and
ride on it in that escalating situation with the believe that it
could be managed to its destination from there origin.
This and some other hocus
–pocus like ‘’ Oga, make I manage am now, I go, go repair am immediately I drop
you, I beg, I beg understand with me’ are indeed the challenges of change in
perception that is still of essence from many of the drivers plying our
metropolis. This trend usually thrives in different segments of our lives as we
move from one origin to another destination. One thing that struck my
understanding anytime on board when in one of these mode of transportation
essentially, the commercial means in our metropolis, is the way the perception
of those in the stirring thinks when the demand for standard is abound.
Typical of any motorbike mode for instance, is how to get a
passenger from one origin to destination. Ordinarily, every means of transport
with commercial out look should be of standard when ever the needs arises to
service its mechanism, put in place good shape of tires, its road worthiness
standard with the rest of the infrastructure that keeps the mechanism in smooth
motion at every pace demanded. But then, in some occasions reverse is usually
the case, you will see some motor bikes having their tire dancing in an unusual
manner, is either the sprocket chain is faulty or the tires are wired- off, and
could be dangerous.
Most occasion the operator is fully aware, but because
they are good at the word ‘’oga make we manage am, they tend to want to risk it
in that situation. My personal capacity, in the cause of accessing one mode of
commercial bus transport, I find out that many of these vehicular movements are
like death traps. Physical observation alone, gives very bad impression not to
discuss when having an experience on board with such vehicle.
Typical commercial vehicles
like [danfo] has is being called on our road, is few out of many
that can be removed from such controversies, but has on the high side, those
identified with these challenges. A Phenomenon that thrives in, not only road
transport mode, but Air, and rail counterparts as a results of
the overbearing attitudes of some drivers, the management or owners. it was realized
that our drivers truly needs the moral equivalent of collective
counseling of a mind that had been suffused and suffocated through their
thinking when defacing the thought of maintaining their vehicles need if
the needs arise, which off-course should be a regular thing.
The drivers are always far
too eager in making money, and in a hurry, they ignore the need to examine and
evaluate the stages of maintaining their vehicle, which depleting effects usually
fails on passengers. Drivers also fail
to realize how important is their relationship with passengers since they the
passengers are those who patronize them on daily basis and did not fully
understand the importance and the dire consequence of ill maintainace of daily
moving vehicle that falls under this circumstance. In these wise, both the
operators and the passengers share the agony and where in most times the owner
gain. I remembered coming in from yaba route to connect to Iyana ipaja, I
entered commercial vehicle plying that route. it was hell on earth, when all-of
a –sudden, the vehicle developed fault, and the passengers new how non challant
those drivers could be when the need for maintainace arises in servicing
their vehicle periodically as it suppose to be the culture, and is not
in that circumstances. Those passengers alight from the vehicle, yelling, some
are negotiating how much the bus conductor could give to them since they have
gone half way, almost reaching their destination whilst some are not even
close, some are willing to meet with appointment and as well, look for
alternative means of transport that could get them to their
place of destination, for them to meet with appointment in good time
remains a big question calling for answer.
All said. The phenomenon became what seems not boarding the
driver other than the money involved which he new he was at the verge of
loosing. The predicament of the passengers lamenting is of no importance to the
operator, the periodic maintainace that is required of him to implement is of
no significance, instead the money involved. But then, the painful
truth here is that the mechanism would have been given signs before it eventually
parked off on that faithful day, where their usually pattern has failed
unabated.
Part of the reason we
missed the boat here is that we never stopped to examine the
logic or illogicality of our doings in the way we handle thing, more especially
relating to something that affect our lives and the way we
plan them, the belief system of a class of people who were not often the
brightest and the best commercial drivers the nation produced and
who were not really knowledgeable to subject their thinking and thoughts to
positive judgment of how of essence should maintenance of commercial
vehicle is to them.. When you put all these pattern of events
together, one get the impression that our drivers may not have a good
understanding of how these things should be done.
Our system of governance
should put these into cognizance in the area of training and re-training them
as a matter of necessity in their various driving schools. My prime example of
the failures of drivers when it comes to maintainace where-with, escalates into
lot of controversy was about the lingering challenges it poses ahead as we move
on with life. Indeed, foist a new ways of life on the general population, many of
whom were already set in their ways, in the end, checks and balance
is expected to entrenched through self judgment by those operators in ensuring
that their vehicle is worthy, parharp new Nigerian person might have emerged through
self introspection, and with him a new character, discipline and ethos
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