By Fortune Eloagu
It is not unusual for people to operate “kabukabu”, Nigeria’s parlance for unregistered cabs. What is, however, news is that it has gradually become a way of life especially in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), for most civil servants.
Residents of the nation’s capital have come to accept it as a part of the city’s transport system. Daily Sun findings indicate that there are two types of kabukabu operators; namely, those who do it for livelihood because of unemployment and others who are duly employed but make out time to use their vehicles as “kabukabu.”
The latter are mostly public servants who use their vehicles to comb the city to pick up commuters or passengers especially while coming to work in the morning and returning home after work. Some others still operate during work hours. They include civil servants who may have less to do in the office, policemen, soldiers, and personnel of other paramilitary agencies like the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).
Investigations reveal that personnel of the prisons and immigration services also indulge in “kabukabu” business and their preferred route is the Airport Road, ostensibly because their offices are located along the road.
This trade is no longer exclusive for men. Some women also traverse the city with their vehicles engaging in “drop and pick.” The few women involved either ply routes outskirts of the city centre like Lugbe and Nyanya-Mararaba, while those who cover the city centre are usually seen on the Berger-Area 1 and Federal Secretariat-Area 10-Area 1 routes.
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