VIDEO: LAGRIDE driver claims firm manufactured ₦1.3m debt after seeking payments

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A yet-to-be-identified driver with LAGRIDE, the Lagos State ride-hailing platform, has alleged that the company manufactured a ₦1.3 million debt against him in retaliation for demanding outstanding payments owed to him over several months.

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The driver, who spoke during an interview shared via X.com by Nigeria Info FM on Thursday, said he had not received any payment since October despite generating an estimated ₦9 million in revenue for the company across five months about ₦1.8 million monthly, while consistently meeting its targets.

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He further claimed that the alleged debt was introduced after he demanded his earnings and was subsequently increased multiple times in quick succession from ₦375,000 to ₦380,000, ₦800,000, ₦1.1 million, and eventually ₦1.3 million, with the last increment occurring during the live interview.

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“It was ₦1,165,000 this morning. While we are here, they updated it to ₦1.3 million and I have not worked for days,” he said, adding that he suspected the company had been alerted to his presence at the studio.

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The driver, who said he was in his eighth month with the company, noted that he earned between ₦65,000 and ₦100,000 daily and had not defaulted on his remittances.

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“I wasn’t on debt before. The day I confronted them for my payments, my money, they said pay ₦375,000. It’s refundable. After a month, I did not see my money,” he said.

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“Two months later, I went to them and said please where is this money? Two days later, they gave me debt of ₦380,000. After a couple of days, they gave me debt of ₦800,000. Last week, they gave me debt of ₦1.1 million. Here I have ₦1.3 million.”

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He also alleged that the company failed to provide a clear breakdown of the debt.

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“They can’t. They don’t have an explanation,” he said.

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Responding to the allegations via a WhatsApp conversation with our correspondent, LAGRIDE PR Director, Ifeanyi Abraham, stated that it operates a transparent earnings and remittance system and denied arbitrarily assigning debts to its drivers.

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He wrote, “LAGRIDE operates a fully transparent earnings and remittance system, and every captain has access to their complete account records at any time.”

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It added that it currently has no record of a formally raised and validated dispute of the nature described by the driver, but has initiated an internal review into the referenced account.

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According to the company, “Any outstanding balance on a captain’s account arises from documented operational obligations agreed at onboarding — these figures are not arbitrarily assigned and a full breakdown is available to the captain through the appropriate channel.”

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𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎: 𝐋𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 ₦𝟏.𝟑𝐦 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐭 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬

Credit: X | Nigeria Info FM

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April 16, 2026

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