Taxpayer demos over poor services point to official impunity

Multi Media University students protest along Magadi Road over rogue matatus and bad state of the road. (Photo: Willis Awandu)

There have been two separate demonstrations in the Rongai area of Nairobi in as many days. Last Sunday, a public service vehicle on the Rongai route overturned, killing four people and injuring many. It has emerged that most public service vehicles on this route operate with impunity while traffic policemen and the National Transport and Safety Authority officials look on.

Among the four who died in the accident was a female student of Multi Media University, Rongai. In protest, students from the university barricaded the road on Tuesday this week, paralysing transport between Rongai and Nairobi city.