Rotor Driver,
By your own admission you have never been to Nigeria, so I suggest you keep your thoughts to yourself.
Phone Wind,
It's as if you have a crystal ball when you talk about the dangers on the road to Owerri. Only today a Filipino oil worker was kidnapped on the road from Owerri to Port Harcourt (bringing the number of Filipino workers currently being detained to 25). The kidnappers are reported to have blocked the road with a van, killed his police escort, who was trying to protect him, and then kidnapped the Filipino.
And there are still companies who expect employees to travel by road between Owerri and Port Harcourt!!?
. If all workers were to refuse to accept to expose themselves to the unacceptable risk of travelling on this dangerous road, employers may be forced to rethink the use of this route. If it were me, I'd ask if my employer accepted full responsibility for sending me on this journey, unless the safety consultant or whoever, got out of that air-conditioned office, flew to Owerri, travelled by road to Port Harcourt and assessed the risks of that versus Arik and recommended in writing that the road option was considerably safer
. I'd also want to see a few of senior managers from my company setting the example and travelling that way themselves (their kidnapping could be a salutary lesson and a great way of reducing the number of unecessary administrative staff
)