"I Have Not Seen Him In 30 Years": Man Finds Bus Driver Who Used To Drive Him in Nursery School

"I Have Not Seen Him In 30 Years": Man Finds Bus Driver Who Used To Drive Him in Nursery School

  • A Nigerian man ran into a bus driver who worked in the nursery school he attended as a child in Gboko, Benue state
  • The man, Takema Akôm Smith, said the man was his school bus driver at Kusaki Nursery School in Gboko
  • Takema identified the man as 'Maigida' and noted that he had not seen him for the past 30 years

A Nigerian man saw a man who worked as a bus driver in his school when he was in nursery.

The man, Takema Akôm Smith, recalled that the bus driver worked at Kusaki Nursery School in Gboko, Benue state.

Man runs into his school bus driver.
The man said he had not seen the bus driver for 30 years. Photo credit: Facebook/Takema Akom Smith.
Source: UGC

Takema said he had not seen the man for 30 years but recently ran into him.

He recalled that he and other children used to call the driver 'Maigida.' He took a photo with the man and posted it on Facebook.

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Other Facebook users who attended the same school acknowledged that they knew the man.

See some reactions below:

Hajia Erdoo Azenda said:

"Wow! Maigida, maigida, that's how we would be shouting whenever we see him coming to pick us up to school. I used to cry while going to school, so anytime he came to pick us, he be like chance chance let her come in before she starts crying. I used to sit in front. What a memory. May God continue to keep him."

Joy Tofi Steve Orshio said:

"There were two Maigida, the other was smallish and younger, and then Danlamin. Those were the first three drivers. I was among Kusaki's first graduating set."

Sende Maureen Ilumun commented:

"Oh wow he hasn’t changed a-bit..Drop his contact let’s call him."

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Akaakar Emmanuella Nguemo said:

"Back then, he was the driver of a yellow coaster bus."

Bus conductor shares story

Meanwhile, a young Nigerian man with the Twitter handle @neldom2010 has said that he worked as a bus conductor for four years so that he could pay his school fees.

After secondary school, he also had to rely on the job to partly fund himself in his first year at the university.

The young man's fortune has now changed with a great job and he is about to complete his MBA.

Source: Legit.ng

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