High fares at Lagos parks continue to elicit mixed reactions.

On Friday, high fares at Lagos motor parks caused some residents to cancel their plans to travel out of the state for the holiday season.

Some Lagos residents who spoke with the reporters expressed dissatisfaction with the high cost of transportation.

Mrs Juliana Friday told NAN that she couldn’t continue her journey because the fare was too expensive.

Friday stated that she worked as a secretary in a law firm in Lagos and that her monthly salary was only N25,000.

“In March, I will pay another house rent and improve my living situation.

” It is better, I go back home because I can’t afford N20,000 to Abakaliki, and only God knows how much they will charge while coming back to Lagos.

“There is more fuel in circulation now than last week when people were traveling for the Christmas season,” she said.

Mr Charles Edet, who wanted to visit Akwa-Ibom, said he was supposed to travel with his two brothers but had to return home due to transportation costs.

Edet stated that the fare to Akwa-Ibom was N22,000 the previous week, but there were few passengers on Friday, so it was between N18,000 and N20,000.

Mr Sam Akintade, who was traveling to Abuja from Lagos, said the N18,000 fare was reasonable.

Akintade explained that the problem was that there were few passengers, which caused movement to be delayed, forcing him to sleep in the park.

Mr Oluchi Okoye, a trader, said he needed to travel to Anambra for his brother’s wedding, despite the fact that the fare was expensive.

Okoye thanked God for allowing him to afford the ticket for himself and his wife.

He urged the Federal Government to investigate the issue of fuel scarcity in order to lower fares and allow more Nigerians to travel with their families and loved ones.

Mrs Rebecca Kalejaiye, a traveller to Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, said she boarded a vehicle from Ojota for N4,000.

Mr Sharafa Adisa, a driver, stated that they had fewer passengers than usual traveling to Ibadan from Ojota parks.

Mr Bassy Udom, a driver with the Akwa-IbomTransport Authority, said they were dissatisfied with the fares but spent a lot of money on fuel.

“We have to buy black market fuel; although we can get fuel in Lagos, we face a lot of indiscriminate pricing when we return, and we have to keep moving.”

He stated that many people did not travel because of the country’s security situation.

“We also face a lot of traffic as a result of bad roads from Ogun State to many states in the country.

“The government should assist us in fixing the roads in order to reduce time spent on the roads and stress,” Udom said.