Tunde Odesola
The ‘Molue’ is the omnibus farting fumes and pain on Lagos roads. It symbolises the innumerable privately-owned commercial buses seating 44 passengers with an indeterminable number of standing passengers cramming the aisle. The ‘Molue’ is akin to the spider; lethal, loose-limbed and loaded. The queer-looking thingamajig came into existence in the 1970s. ‘Molue’ is a Yoruba interpretation of ‘mould it’, which refers to the forging of iron sheets and steel by local auto builders to make the crudest bus known to science and technology.
Exhibiting the nimbleness of a lithe athlete, Jimoh, the stocky bus conductor jumped off the cruising giant cage on wheel, outrunning the rickety, jalopy, smoky bucket of bolts. As he jumped off the step at the door and the bus screeched to a stop at Iyana Ipaja, Jimoh began to shout the route of the bus, “Oshodi! Oshodi!…
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