Hmmmmm, it was a normal rainy saturday morning in rivers state. I was in my port harcort basement. That morning another trend followed. No one woke up before 9am. It was more like since the raining is dropping, we should still be sleeping. By 9:15 or there about I woke up, I had to travel to awka that morning.
The raining had reduced at about this time, so my cousins and I go for some exercise, on our return we branched the video game mall. Spent 2 hours there and by 1pm I was ready to make final preparations to set out of the house. I took a befitting Eba and Egusi soup to serve for both Breakfast And Lunch as I took a bath and did some final packing.
Port harcourt is known for crazy traffic jam but luckily for me, by 2pm I was in the park, I forgot one of my phones at home. I only noticed when I was close to the park,my cousin later brought the phone for me and by 3pm I got my ticket. After waiting for the car to be complete, At around 4 o'clock the bus left for awka.
Everyone in the bus did some 3 hours calculation and estimated we would be in awka before 8. The driver boated we would be there by 7pm. The driver's declaration seemed to be coming thru as we left the city of PH within 1 hour as there was no traffic jam. Our driver seemed to be on perfect acceleration and by 5:30, we were at the outskirts of river state which meant in less than 2 hours we would have been at our destination. We were wrong.
Some minutes after 6'o'clock we had just gotten into owerri to drive another 20 minutes into the first real threat of a traffic jam. It was too long and I noticed we had 3 lanes going and I lane coming. We looked ahead to notice the line was quite long and we were stuck for a while.
By 7pm we had barely moved more than 3 times without a brief stop and we noticed the first spoilt big trailer. The rad was bad and cars frquently got stuck. The passengers changed attitude by now, people started grumbling. We were there for another 1 hour till we came a little closer to notice there was a bad end of the road that cause the cars to get stuck. Another big trailer stuck there. There were now 2 hurdles.
By 8 pm we had gotten close to the 2nd hurdle when another going truck blocked the road. It had broken down. We were in the traffic jam for another hour. When it was our turn to cross the bad end that stuck the tyres. The driver asked we got down to reduce the weight. Before the hour ran out. We passed that end of it. It was 9 pm and the driver scaled through to follow a particular lane. We were lucky to get to the clear lane by 9:30. We had a problem, 2 of the passengers were missing. It tOok almost another hour to locate them among the crowd that came down to reduce the weight of their cars.
It was devastating. We were in owerri town at 10:30. It was really dark everywhere. People were really complaining about the driver who went for passengers, while some to the passengers for not being watchFul. Some like me to the government for not providing gOod roads.
We got into anambra state some minutes to midnight. Passengers had been getting continuos worry calls from relatives. Everyone had dropped at one bus stop or the other. The driver was scared we would run into hoodlums but luckily we were in awka by 1am. Them no born me well to go house that nite. I slept with the driver in the park that Nite. It was a terrible night* 9 hours to from ph city to Acity??? Even if I was trekking!!!!
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