Drivers must however complete between 9-11 trips, work at least 7 hours and accept up to 90% of orders among others.Īccording to its drivers, the company also put in place one of the highest price surges ever on its app, a whopping 5.0, in a bid to entice drivers to abandon their protest and hit the road. To protect its business and ensure that enough drivers were on the road despite the ongoing strike and protest, the company had offered a generous N6,000 bonus to drivers who came out to work. Yahaya Mohammed, Bolt Nigeria Country Manager Therefore, our revised fares aim to strike a balance between better compensation for drivers and manageable prices for passengers. Excessively high prices will discourage passengers from ordering rides, thus negatively impacting drivers’ earnings. We adjusted the fares taking into account the issue of demand and supply. While respecting the rights of the drivers to protest and engage in peaceful demonstrations, the Bolt Country Manager, however, suggested there won’t be a further increase in prices because that would discourage passengers from ordering rides.
But this was a far cry from the 200% which the drivers demanded, forcing them to boycott the apps in protest on Wednesday. Taken together, they represented an increase of about 15%. In the same vein, a trip on Bolt Corporate rose from N3,460 to N4,020 while the fare for Bolt Lite rose from N2,660 to N2,980. The fare for the regular Bolt trip rose from N3,300 to N3,780. Going by rates made available to drivers, Technext reported that Bolt had instituted a fare increase of about 15%. This is according to a mail sent to Technext by a Bolt representative in response to our earlier publication of how the company offered mouthwatering bonuses and huge surge in a bid to discourage drivers from joining the industrial action.īolt had previously announced a new price regimen for its drivers following the hike in fuel prices that greeted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s removal of fuel subsidy. As Uber and Bolt drivers under the aegis of the Amalgamated Union of App-based Transport Workers of Nigeria (AUATWON) embarked on a strike to protest the app companies’ refusal to increase their fares, Country Manager of Bolt, Yahaya Mohammed has suggested that his company might be unwilling to hike its fares more than it already has.
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