Hi friends 馃槉. Its day 232 of the year already 馃槉. I went to visit the Morden AKTC (AKWAIBOM STATE TRANSPORT COMPANY ) Park in my State. As a first time visitor, the exterior environment of the park
was sort of a rowdy, noisy and busy place with a moderate level of security. Just beside the entrance was a hotel, I also saw commercial traders situated, where most of the sales are done ranging from homemade food, drinks, phone accessories, clothes, Baba Ijebu too 馃槀. I know you must be wondering what baba Ijebu is, it's a betting store where people test their luck skills by predicting a scoreline by staking some amount of money to win bigger. That's all I know about baba ijebu, I haven't played the game before but I have heard of it from people who plays the game.
On entering, I saw police officers sitting on one section of the park to ensure that passengers and travellers abide by the travelling regulations and also to screen those without nose mask.
This is the counter where travelling bookings are done. Basically the transport company travels across all states in Nigeria with a moderate cost, but due to the pandemic, prices and have inflated because lesser amount of passengers required to be transported in buses and to ensure social distancing are being maintained.
Here I was, the purpose of my visit was to come pick up a parcel I ordered from lagos. On reaching there, I was told I came so early that the courier staff will be coming in an hour time so I just had to exercise patience. I took this picture with a direct lightning flashing through my camera and I gave the light region a more focus to make me appear darker on the picture.
While waiting for the courier staff to arrive, I decided to document some pictures of the booking hall. To the extreme left is where all sort of bookings are done and to the right is where passengers sit.
I further decided to utilise the one hour time I had by capturing some nice pictures of what the park looks like, and on stepping out towards the extreme entrance of the hall, I found a tap positioned outside to ensure a healthy hand hygiene amongst passengers, enabling them wash their hands to fight germs and other harmful and unwanted substances stuck to the hands:
This is the exterior view of the park, I must confess the environment was sparkling clean and spotless onlike the exterior where commercial traders are situated and where most of the sales are done ranging from homemade food, drinks, phone accessories and even clothes. The exterior was way too dirty that I thought the interior was going to be nothing to write home about but I was indeed wrong. If you zoom into this picture you'd find scale where people's goods are being weighed for delivery purposes :
Here's a picture of the busses set aside for preventive maintenance and servicing :
Here's another perspective of the picture above :
Although there is no time regulation for travelling activities, the environment remains busy and every one moving to catch up a trip, waybill parcels, or trying to locate buses going to their destination
It was a very long day and the sun indeed showed no mercy. It was my first time to the park and I struggled to act not as a cool headed being as I could see some touts moving aimlessly and looking for new passengers to fall into their trap. So I imbibed consciousness while taking these pictures lest I lose my phone
I also saw series of road signs and directives showing people on what to do at the park and also showing restricted areas
Zooming into this picture, you'd find some of the states where the transport company travels to, they include :
Akwa Ekom
Abakiliki
Ariaria
Akure
Aba
Onicha. Among others :
About 45 minutes after my stroll, I arrived at the counter to collect my parcel 馃槉
It was indeed a fun and cool visit at the park.
All photos taken by me with my Xiaomi Redmi note 8 Camera and Edited with Adobe Lightroom and Picsart.
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