Informal businesses battle for piece of SGR passengers

Boda boda stationed at Mombas road- SGR junction waiting for passengers to-from Standard Gauge Railway terminus-Syokimau, they earn a living from there.  18/01/2018(Jenipher Wachie,Standard)

“Only the most adaptable to change shall survive” is perhaps one of the most important lessons biologist Charles Darwin passed down to humanity. Yet, if you would have told Agnes Mukene about that a year ago, she might have disagreed.

Back then, Ms Mukene was working alongside tens of other women, preparing meals for some of the thousands of construction workers who were building the Nairobi-Mombasa Standard Gauge Railway.