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The rise and fall of Nyayo’s buses service as graft eroded all gains

By KIUNDU WAWERU

From the 1930s to the early 1970s, public transport in Kenya was without the chaos experienced today. The mode of transport then was buses, which run on schedule, picking and dropping customers at designated bus stops.

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