A new trend has emerged involving South African users booking Bolt rides from their home country, only to anger Nigerian drivers.
The drama began when South African users took to the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to share videos of themselves booking Bolt rides in Nigeria, despite being located in South Africa.
The aim was to waste the drivers’ time and resources by sending them on long-distance trips.
One viral video captured a South African user booking a Bolt driver all the way from Ozumba Mbadiwe to the Nigerian Law School in Lagos, while remaining firmly planted in their South African residence.
Understandably, this provocative behavior incited a swift response from the Nigerian side.
Angered by the South African “Bolt booking” tactics, Nigerian users retaliated by booking rides in South Africa, escalating the situation further.
Hence, successfully creating a maximum bolt surge in Cape Town and Johannesburg, rendering most South Africans Stranded, due to unavailability and expensive rides.
The back and forth between the two nations has sparked lively social media conversation, with South Africans eventually pleading for a truce as the retaliatory bookings intensified.
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South Africans are booking rides from their country, wasting Nigerian drivers time. pic.twitter.com/OLoyaA2ADz
— YabaLeftOnline (@yabaleftonline) August 22, 2024