Parents sceptical as back to school off to slow start

Esther Njeri assists her brother Geoffrey Mwaura to fit shoes in a Bata Shop on Kenyatta Avenue, Nakuru, yesterday. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

The bus stages were empty. Transport companies that set aside vehicles to transport students had to release them for regular passengers when by midday yesterday they had not filled even a single bus.

“Maybe parents are worried about putting so many children in public transport so they are using private means. By now, we would have gotten students travelling long distance to start filling the buses,” said Peterson Omwenga, who manages buses at Machakos country bus station in Nairobi.