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But drivers say they generally pay three types: “booking” is paid so they can start work at the motor parks every morning before each trip, they pay a “loading” fee, which is usually a sum equal to the fare of two passengers and “tickets” are undefined charges which are paid once or twice a day depending on the parks they use. These men, mostly clad in white and green uniforms but sometimes in plain clothes and carrying sticks or canes, collect dues from motorcycle, tricycle, and danfo bus drivers on behalf of the drivers’ union – a toll that allows them to pick up passengers. In Yoruba, agbero means “to carry passengers”, but this does not connote what the agberos do. Some run after the bus, demanding their due. The only thing momentarily slowing him down along his route are the agberos – the motor park touts he hands 100 naira ($0.27) bills to every time he passes their junctions.
“I have to deliver to the owner of the bus tonight.” His conversations with passengers are terse he has no time to listen to their complaints.
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“I am in a hurry to return to the park and do more trips,” the driver explained.
In a leased danfo – the privately run yellow and white minibuses that serve as unofficial public transport in Nigerian cities – the 32-year-old plies through the busy streets, breaking off before traffic signals, in a rush to get his passengers to the nearby suburb of Oyingbo. Afeez* has just left a bus park at Iyana Isolo, a small busy road near the popular Ojuwoye street market in the district of Mushin. Lagos, Nigeria – It is 7pm on a Wednesday in late September.
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