BUS NACKING: Night Travel’s Fringe Benefit

Night travel may be fraught with a lot of dangers in Nigeria where highways are not in the best condition and robbers use the state of the roads as an opportunity to ambush interstate commercial vehicles but in spite of these inherent dangers, there seems to be no reduction in the number of people who choose to go on journeys in the night.

Punch recently carried out a survey to find out if sex during night travelling really exists and the findings are shocking.....read below 

At Jibowu, an area of Lagos where luxury buses load passengers to the Eastern part of the country, Chidioke Ekezie, a motorboy attached to a bus of one of the popular transport operators in Lagos, gave an insight into life on night buses, which he explained could be very vibrant and “interesting” as a result of the duration of the journeys.

“There has never been a time that those taking night journey reduced. The thing is that a lot of people just like travelling at that time simply because it is traffic-free,

A lot of people make new friends and many young people who board the buses as strangers become couples during the journey.”

When asked whether there is any sexual activity during these journeys, Ekezie smiled mischievously and said...

“It is a known fact that it happens. Some people are just quite stupid. Most couples wait till we get to our designated bus stops to have sex.

For instance, on a journey from Onitsha to Lagos, the bus sometimes leaves at about 10pm and later stops at Benin so that the passengers can stretch their legs, buy refreshments and ease themselves. This takes a long time.i have seen a lot of passengers get down and go around a corner to have sex. It happens. I have also seen some passengers have sex in the bus while others are off the bus. When this happens, it is a problem for the man and woman involved. We don’t condone such acts in the bus.

We could decide to drop the involved passengers there and leave because it is very silly for people to have sex in the bus.”

A 23-year-old student Chukwueloka,  He said he always took night buses anytime he went home.

“Night buses are interesting. A lot of things happen there.There was a time I went to Yenagoa (Bayelsa State capital) in 2005. I boarded the bus at Mazamaza and got a seat beside a fair lady who was also going to Bayelsa. The journey was at least seven hours and we took off around 6pm.

I had been chatting with the lady since we left Lagos. About four hours into the journey, she yawned and said she was sleepy. She rested her head on my shoulder and there was no way she could be comfortable if my arm did not go around her shoulders.

My arm brushed her breast mistakenly and she did nothing. It turned out that by her body language as the journey went on, she wanted something. I had heard about such things happening on buses but I did not immediately understand her intention.She later made it clear when her hand went to my zippers.”

I just wanted to experience it. She sat on my lap and other passengers were asleep in the bus. It was also dark,”  

Having a sexual encounter with a complete stranger may be a no-no for many people but Chukwueloka said he used protection.

Kalu Ejiofor, gave his own version of the issue.

 “There was a time a lady came to the park in Anambra to board our bus. It turned out that her fare was not enough so a young man offered to help complete it.

During the journey to Lagos, they obviously became friends. When the bus got to Benin, passengers got down from the bus. A passenger got back in the bus and noticed that same lady and the man were having sex in the dark at the back of the bus.

He alerted us. We really insulted and embarrassed both of them. They are not supposed to be doing such a thing in a public bus because I personally don’t think it is decent.”

Ikenna Okafor,  

  “A lady came from Benin Republic to Nigeria. The stress of the journey must have made her tired as she slept off. A man sitting next to the girl began to “finger” her as she slept. He was molesting her! It was another passenger who was awake that noticed the whole thing.

He was aware that the two of them did not come together and such a thing was happening. It was then he alerted me. We woke the lady up and informed her about what happened. It was so surprising that the girl was too tired that she did not even know.”

Uche said, 

“There has been series of robberies on the Abuja highway and the worst part of it is that the robbers are notorious for raping female passengers too. I had a female friend that came to visit me. When she was travelling back on the Abuja road, she encountered armed robbers and they raped her. Just last week, they robbed one of our buses.

“The bad road is what makes it easy to perpetrate these crimes because buses are forced to slow down in such bad spots. We encounter armed robbers on our journeys sometimes but it has reduced. But the government right now should be aware that Abuja road is very unsafe.

Over the years, there have been several campaigns against night travels. The reasons given by the Federal Road Safety Commission are that most of the roads are not well illuminated and the poor state of most of Nigeria’s highways causes avoidable accidents.

But while night travel may have its downside, it seems some passengers will always favour it because of the different attractions it holds for them.

*Na wah oh..has any blog visitor experienced anything of such?as in people making out during a night journey?