Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Conductor, you don pay tithe?

Conductor, you don pay tithe? asked a policeman to the conductor of a vehicle I entered.

The first sentence that came to my head  was "Holy Christ, how can the word 'tithe' with its Biblical meaning be used by a policeman as a synonym to the word 'bribe' or 'egunje'?"

I decided to watch as events unfold and I saw the conductor giving the policeman an amount of money, after that, the driver continued driving.

Wide-eyed and open-mouthed, I said to myself "OMG! these policemen have really stepped-up their game. It's no longer 20 bucks but now 100 bucks!!"

Ok, Now, let's do a little logic and mathematics here, hypothetically, let's say 2 public transports takes this route every 15 minutes. So, in 2 hours, 16 vehicles takes this route.

If a vehicle pays N100 that means, in 2 hours, 16 vehicles would pay
N100 * 16 = N1600.

We have 5 working days in a week, this gives us N1600 * 5 = N8000.

4 weeks in a month now gives us a monthly total of N8000 * 4 = N32000.

So, a policeman that stands on this route for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week and 4 weeks in a month collects a total of N32000. woaw!

Hmm...., 32000..., a civil servant who works for 8 hours a day earns a minimum of N18000 monthly...., hmm....

Since the monthly earning of a policeman on the road (monthly salary excluded) is more than the minimum wage, I'm contemplating... maybe I should join the force?... Because it seems like a very "lucrative business" to me.  lol.

*just kidding*

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