ANTI-OTTI PROPAGANDA HAS NOW ENTERED COMMERCIAL BUS.
So because one driver sits inside a bus and laments, Abia should cancel reform?
Wonderful logic.
Next, let one man sit inside a wheelbarrow and declare that road construction is anti-poor because wheelbarrow pushers may lose business. Then government should stop building roads.
Biko, let us think small.
Every reform has a transition pain, yes. But no serious society remains in chaos because some people are comfortable with disorder. Before now, motor parks were scattered everywhere, passengers were dragged like Christmas goats, touts taxed people without receipts, roads were blocked, and nobody knew who collected what.
Now government says: enter a proper terminal, use manifest, follow order, let passengers board safely, let revenue be documented — suddenly it is “hardship.”
Hardship for who?
For the passenger who now boards in a safer environment?
For the city that now has less roadside madness?
For government that is finally plugging revenue leakages?
Or for the old arrangement where everybody collected something and nobody accounted for anything?
They are angry about electric buses too. Imagine! In 2026, some people are protesting because Abia is entering modern transport. So Abia should reject cleaner, cheaper, more organized buses because petrol operators feel threatened?
Competition is not oppression.
Regulation is not wickedness.
Order is not punishment.
And development is not propaganda because it did not pass through your pocket.
Dr Alex Otti OFR is not building a transport system for touts. He is building one for passengers, operators, investors, road users, and the future of Abia.
So let the propaganda continue.
But Abia will not return to roadside loading, cash-and-carry levies, illegal parks, and government-by-chaos.
The tears are understandable.
When disorder is losing power, it always cries like the victim.
