How I lost my first car to a mechanic

I never thought I would live to see the day when traffic congestion would be a problem not just for the large Kenyan cities like Nairobi and Mombasa, but even for relatively small towns like Embu and Meru.

Not too long ago we only used to read about them happening in far off cities like London, New York and Tokyo and exotic terms like “gridlock” and “tailback” were as foreign to many Kenyans as the Russian winter.