Is Buru Buru Girls' ‘Timbaland’ the hottest school bus?

School buses of today are sleek. Gone are the days when students rode in some old lorry coughing its way through traffic. Starehe Boys Centre had ‘Wooden Horse’ also nicknamed ‘Dennis Dragon’ while Dagoretti High School had ‘Jumbo’. Today’s buses are an identity that defines a high school. After conducting a brief survey, here are three buses Nairobians ranked top three.

1. Buru Buru Girls 

Buruburu Girls (Famous as Buru Mambao) has the kind of school bus that is known even before you see it. Walk into any of the high school functions and see the awe that greets the brown coloured bus as it zooms in. The bus was nicknamed Timbaland, a colour associated with the male footwear which has a colour similar to the school uniform. The brown bus was the hottest owing to being fitted with a screen! 

2. Kuoyo Secondary

One of those things that brought Kisumu to a standstill last year was Kuoyo Secondary’s new 51 seater bus; a Sh7.9 million gem that was purchased by Kisumu West Constituency Development Fund and has since been the centre for attraction for the school, being especially different from the 60-something seaters they are used to. This bus get students more excited than Catholics were at seeing Pope Francis!

3. Isibania School

Theirs is a High School’s version of ‘Modern Coast’... The luxury machine as they’d like to call it has curtains and comfortable seats incomparable to any other in their region. In some school events, students from other schools flock into and around the ‘shuttle’ to listen to music... That’s how you know you are boss.

4. Alliance Girls

Theirs defines creativity. Alliance schools nicknamed ‘Bush’ has its bus taking the ‘bushy feel’. Its awesome graphics — green and white — is a sight to savour. If for anything, you will remember their bus first, after their name.

5. Nakuru High School

They called their new bus ‘HighFlier...’ The rugby giants needed something new to carry the team around.