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Meet the Fearless Female Truck Driver at Dangote Cement Who Likes to Drive at Night (Photo)
Posted by Lolade on Fri 16th Oct, 2015 - tori.ngA senior female truck driver at Nigerias' giant cement factory, Dangote Cement, has shared her experience on the job.
Hajiya Gambo Muhammad
The woman, identified as Hajiya Gambo Muhammad, who is a senior driver in Dangote Cement Transport Obajana, has a high popularity rate among her officers at the transport department within the company.
Speaking in an interview with Leadership, she said was 18 years when she started driving a truck.
The 35 year old female driver said she inherited driving from her father who was a driver for a decade. According to her, her brothers were drivers so she joined the line of driving.
She said: "I learnt how to drive through my husband. At first I usually observed how he drove and I made up my mind that one day I would also learn. Later, I began to ask him to teach me driving.
"The first time he disagreed on my proposal, but eventually, he agreed because he thought I would not be able to cope because it is not easy. Not every male driver can drive a truck talk more of me being a female. I insisted that I was ready to learn, so he gave the directive to his partner to teach me and that was how I began to learn.
"I obtained a driving license and identification card from Dangote cement Transport, Obajana. Now I have spent 12 years working with the company. We are working together with my former husband in the same company."
"Usually, I prefer driving overnight. I drive around 1:30 to 3:00am in the night to everywhere I am going across the country."
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