Chidinma: Nigeria-S’Africa beef takes a bad turn as citizens frustrate Bolt riders with false orders

Following the online squabble caused by the involuntary withdrawal of Chidinma Adetshina from the 2024 Miss South Africa competition, Nigerians and South Africans have taken to social media to come to blows.

Both countries are presently at loggerheads as Nigerians and SA citizens order bolt rides from the other country to frustrate the riders.

The development has caused a rancour on the X platform with citizens of both countries calling for the management of the transportation application to block international orders.

A netizen, @MissPearls, shared a message that was sent to her by a bolt rider in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, where the rider complained about a request suspected to be from a South Africa trying to frustrate him.

@MissPearls wrote, “Bolt needs to somehow ban bookings from outside Nigeria for now. South Africans are harassing bolt drivers all the way from their country. To waste time and fuel for drivers. This is EVIL. This cruelty MUST STOP!”

@ISephara wrote, “I’m not gonna lie, South Africans ordering Bolt rides in Lagos, Abuja and other major cities, then cancelling the trip as the driver approaches is top tier spite. Nigerians destroy communities, we will frustrate them until they recall their brothers & sisters here back home.”

“So South Africans are ordering bolts rides in Nigeria from South Africa and cancelling after the rider arrives wasting the drivers’ time & fuel. That’s not fair, what’s this hatred towards Nigerians?? And they think they’re better. This is low!” @Iamwhykayy wrote.

Another X user, Chukwuebuka, wrote, “Ordered a bolt from Cape Town to Cape Town beach 😂 driver just arrived, South Africa na una go tire ajeh 😂 me way Dey jobless without, we go again 😂
#SA #SouthAfrica #bolt”

@BigDan wrote, “Nigerian don order all South Africans bolt and Uber, imagine a country Lagos is bigger than trying to compete with us😂😂😂😂
#SouthAfrica #Bolt”

“I understand the ṢÁ people started it first but two wrongs don’t make a right. It is heartbreaking to get people’s hopes up and disappoint them immediately. Stop ordering bolt rides from South Africa and South Africans should also stop it. It shouldn’t be this bad,” Ibrahim Kazeem wrote on X.