A Bus Town Service Driver (BTS) plying Kaduna Central Market and Sabon Tasha by express burst into tears after purchasing N20,000 Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as Petrol, from filling station on Kachia road..
The driver (name withheld), initially be came emotionally charged when his conductor informed him that the amount of money charged for the litre he directed him to buy is N20,000.
Narrating the ugly trends, our reporter who was a star witness reported that the driver became emotional with grumbling after delivered the N20,000, which attracted passengers attention.
As a front seat passenger, our reporter turned to him and asked the driver why he’s so emotional, the driver, who responded with expression of anger explained that he cannot remember paid such amount for petrol since he started driving commercial over a decade.
The driver continue, with tears rolling down his cheek, that they may not even recover the money, and “makes little no profits at all”, after settling conductor and owner of the bus.
Calculating the movement, he said his dielima is that, most times a shurtle between central market and Sabon Tasha transport gave them about N5,000 and more or less for going, and far less in return to Sabon Tasha at about this morning hours.
He however predicted that, the fuel may finished in three or four trips, lamenting and wondering how he could continue the commercial driving work without profits under the current situation in the country.
Findings however revealed that the BTS passengers are still complaining about the high cost of fair especially in the early morning hours, and later hours and evening rush hours which is put at N400- N600 and sometimes N700 respectfully.
Indeed, the situation has not changed for better with the introduction of the CNG powered free bus transport services for civil servants and others under Governor Uba Sani led administration.
Experts have however attributed the current fuel increase to the Gulf War in the Middle East, anticipating it’ll fall at the end of the conflicts between US -Israel and Iran.
