Wakanow begins renting out police officers to VIPs as insecurity worsens
Nigerian travel agency Wakanow has added a new tactic to its travel menu, offering protection services to South-East travellers in its new package.
In a flyer advert seen by Peoples Gazette on Tuesday, the travel agency named the new plan Home Coming to the East. The new plan is expected to motivate South-East travellers of the habit of visiting their hometown to embark on their customary trip despite security worries.
Priced N320,000 for trips from Lagos to any southeastern state, the package is expected to cater for the safe commuting and welfare of passengers and details attached to the trip.
The organisation said the fee will cover transportation in a Toyota Hilux vehicle, two police escorts and a driver.
The travel agency also revealed that those travelling within the South-East region could get access to the special service at a reduced cost of “N260,000 per day”.
Confirming the development to The Gazette via the organisation’s official WhatsApp page, a customer care representative who corroborated the travel rate on the flyer said “if you want a one way, then it is NGN 320,000, if it is a round trip then it is NGN640,000.”
“If you require the service within the East, the fee is NGN 260,000 per day,” the care rep added.
Wakanow’s new strategy comes amidst the expected influx of Igbos to their country homes this Yuletide. The parlous security situation of the region remains dreaded for multitudes of indigenes who traditionally return home from abroad for end-of-year festivities.
In May, Inspector General of Police Usman Baba to launched Operation Restore Peace in the region as strategy to quell incessant attacks on the police and other government establishments by unknown gunmen.
However, the insecurity in the region did not abate, even threatening the conduct of Anambra governorship election which was eventually held after back-channel negotiations with separatists.
Though attacks on government facilities have largely quietened since the conduct of the November 6 election, cases of violence and fatal confrontations continue to occur between gunmen and security operatives.
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