Transport
fares have doubled in Asaba following the continued scarcity of fuel and price increases in the parallel market. Taxi drivers and commercial tricycle riders in the Delta capital
have doubled their fares from N50 to N100 for a drop.
Mr Ekene Bright, a tricycle driver, told NAN that he doubled his
fares because a litre of fuel in Asaba now cost N200 instead of N86.50.
Bright said that he would be operating at a loss if he continued
to charge the normal fares, pointing out that he hired the tricycle and did not
own it.
He told NAN that many commercial tricycle operators in Asaba
rented them and had to double the fares in order to break even.
Another tricycle operator, Mr Fabian Chukwuka, said he was
suspicious that the petrol in his vehicle was adulterated.
Chukwuka claimed that the brand of fuel available in fuel
stations now burnt so easily unlike the brand he used to buy before the fuel
scarcity.
He told NAN that he now charged passengers N100 instead N50 to
convey them from Summit Junction to Ogbe-Ogonogo Market.
He said that most times stayed so long at their loading spots to
get passengers unlike he did before the fuel scarcity because most passengers
now preferred to trek.
He appeals to the Federal Government to end the fuel scarcity
because the impact was telling so much on the citizenry. (NAN)
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