‘Drivers tell people to get out of your car’

“YOU encounter problems with your fellow taxi drivers, ordinary people and even the guards. Often people just walk past your cab and other coloured people’s cabs at the rank to get into an indigenous taxi-driver’s car.”

“Then you have hackney drivers harassing you, telling you to leave the area, telling people to get out of your car, that you’re not local, you’re not safe you don’t have insurance, nine out of 10 times they do get out your car.”

This is the daily experience of work for Felmi, a Nigerian taxi driver since August 2007.