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An absent CS and a muddled public transport system

Members of the public look at an ill fated public service bus belonging to Home boys and plying Kakamega-Nairobi route after it lost control at Fort Ternan in Kericho County on October 10,2018, killing over fifty people who were on board. [Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard]

You don’t need to look far to see how messed up Kenya’s transport sector is than how an overloaded bus whose insurance had expired two months ago and was not licenced to travel at night was allowed to drive 58 people to their deaths.

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