Accountant Susan Asakpa Who Drives A Cab In Abuja Tells Her Touching Story - Career

Susan Aghogho Asakpa went viral yesterday after her girlfriend shared her pictures on Facebook to celebrate the International Women's Day and revealed she was a graduate accountant turned female cab driver in Abuja.



Here's how this lady wonder got to where she is today:

It all started when Suzan Asakpa’s employer revealed the plan to slash her monthly salary from N80, 000 to N70, 000. ‘That was my wake-up call,’ she narrated, after all she was already getting bored with the job.

She had worked for three years as a manager in a hotel in Abuja and felt she deserved an upgrade. But it wasn’t coming. To make this worse, came that revelation of a salary slash. At that moment Asakpe decided she needed to be her own boss and prayed for a business idea.

When she got on the phone to her father in Lagos, they talked about what she wanted to do. He was
excited when he learnt she wanted to drive a cab herself. It was not long before he gave her a call from Cotonou and asked her whether she would prefer a manual or automatic. He had actually taken a loan for that.

When the car was sent to Abuja, it was already serviced and everything had cost N720, 000. ‘But I am going to pay him back,’ Asakpe revealed, adding that she had already got N500, 000 so far.
So by October, 2015, Asakpe was already in business, but not before some preliminaries.

Before the vehicle was sent to Abuja, she had asked around and knew what she needed to do. So when the time came she took it for a paint job. Initially, she had not wanted to paint it in the traditional taxi colours, but was advised by a taxi driver to do so because it’s the law. Asakpe had complained to him that painted taxis were not allowed to enter some places, but he insisted that at least they still get access into most.

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