Mary and I were taking a bush taxi from Kamsar to our home a couple of weeks ago. Taxi drivers usually stop for random personal reasons, but rarely explain anything to the passengers. This time, the taxi driver felt compelled to tell us that he had to take a back road to get some containers full of oil. It didn't seem too out of the ordinary so we just said it was okay.
After driving forever on this backroad he goes to turn back on the main road and there is a military woman telling him to pull over. It seemed that the taxi driver took the back road to avoid the military checkpoint. He explained to the woman that the prefet asked him to get some oil. She asked where the oil was and he said it was coming. The driver told the woman that another guy at the checkpoint was aware of the situation, so they went to find the military guy who came and said it was okay and that they could pass. It all seemed really sketchy to say the least.
We continued and never did get any oil. We can only assume the rest of that story...
some pics of bush taxis
0 comments:
Post a Comment