Nigerian Student, 22, Travels from Bayelsa to Lagos in 3 Days with Only a Bicycle, He Crossed over 6 States
On Wednesday, June 29, young Roid Fajingbesi arrived in the city of Lagos from Bayelsa after a tiring and incredible 3-day bicycle journey that started on the 27th of June.
The brave 22-year-old 500 level mechatronics engineering student from Federal University Otuoke bares it all with Legit.ng in this exclusive interview, particularly about how he achieved the historic personal feat.
Before kicking off the journey from his campus on the 27th of June, the Ondo state indigene said he had to do a lot of practising in order to be ready and psyched up for the journey ahead.
The 4th child in a family of 5 said that he did a mock bicycle trip from the campus to Ughelli in Delta state on June 21st – which is about 250km to and fro.
Roid added that he also did 60km trips with the bicycle within Bayelsa state.
Bearing in mind the dangers associated with road trips, especially across states in Nigeria, one wouldn’t help but wonder what inspired this young man to go on such a journey.
According to the young man, who owns an engineering startup called Roidfaj Technologies Limited, the desire to achieve greatness was the core reason behind the trip. “The major reason behind these trips is for greatness, I tag the trips ‘Fearless journey to greatness’. “I believe doing this would bring me to the limelight, I would get recognized and from there people can start picking interest in me,” he explained. Roid furthered that the trip was also an avenue for him to prevent himself from getting into depression.
“Also, at some particular point in time, depression want to set in, so I had to do something to get myself out of that mode, something that would be beneficial.” Roid was also out to inspire people with his journey as well as to garner personal experience. He said: “This my journey to greatness is also to inspire people that ” once you can set a goal or a challenge, you can achieve it” and also that, there’s no limit to what a hardworking and fearless human being can achieve.
“I want to meet with great people, because I believe the my journey to greatness would create an avenue for me to meet them. People like Davido, Olamide, Wizkid, Don Jazzy, Tony Elumelu, Femi Otedola, Obi Cubana amongst others.” His Bayelsa-Lagos bicycle trip was also to send an important message to the world. “Lastly to tell the world to always keep moving, to always keep a foot ahead of the other one, because once there’s a starting point, there’s always a finishing line, unless you stop that’s when you won’t be able to make it to the finish line. Either by crawling or walking or running, just make sure one step is ahead of the other.”
