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Bikes create jobs and boost growth

A group of boda boda operators organised themselves into a co-operative society in Laikipia and have invested in a multi-million shilling housing project in Nanyuki. [Standard]

The boda boda, coined from border-to-border trade between Eastern Uganda and Kenya in the 1970s, has become a reliable means of transport and spawned an industry from which millions derive a livelihood.

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