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Tricks Kisumu PSV operators use to survive crackdown

Police officer arrests matatu driver in Nairobi following crackdown [Beverlyne Musili, Standard]

KISUMU, KENYA: Matatu operators in Kisumu County resorted to clever ways to beat police dragnets in the ongoing crackdown on public service vehicles.

While some resorted to alternative routes that traversed through estates and villages to avoid a crackdown exercise by traffic police officers, others chose to withdraw their vehicles from the roads.

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