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Enugu Commuters Cry Out As Transport Fare Skyrocket By 100%
Marketable transport charges have soared by 100 per cent, leaving commuters moaning in Enugu megalopolis, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
A NAN pressman, who covered the development on Tuesday, reports that fares for short distances of about four or five stops down on marketable motorcars and tricycles have risen from N50 is now N100.
A distances covered with N100 before now, is presently charged N200. NAN observed that the development has left numerous commuters, including civil retainers, pupils and scholars touring long distances to and from their destinations.
Replying, a machine motorist plying the Garki-Polo Park route, Mr Andy Onyia, criticized the current increase in fares on the energy pump price hike within Enugu megalopolis.
Onyia said that a situation where motorists have to buy energy for between N200 and N210 per litre, “ you don’t anticipate marketable machine motorists to still charge the old prices.
“If the price of fuel comes down today, I am sure, some commercial bus drivers will revert to their previous charges.
“It does not give most drivers joy seeing people suffer or being placed in hard condition of trekking long distances,” he said.
Mr Okechukwu Madu, a marketable tricycle rider, said that piecemeal from the current energy pump price hike, the issue of dilapidated roads remains a major factor.
A machine motorist in Obiagu axis, Mr Tony Ani, said that the recent energy price increase has had a ripple effect on current profitable conditioning, since every other item vended in the request has witnessed an increase in price.
“To me, drivers have been the most considerate people. For long, other service providers have increased prices.
“Drivers are in the same environment and same market to buy things or pay for services with constant price increases,” Ani, who shuttles between Obiagu–Abakpa, said
