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Malindi police block truckers protest over rates

A truck belonging to Malindi Transporters Association Sacco being reweighed at Mariakani Weighbridge on Friday, July, 6, 2018.The truck was arrested by KENHA police officers at a mobile weighbridge for overloading sand at Chumani along Malindi-Kilifi highway on Thursday, July 5, 2018. [Photo:Maureen Ongala,Standard]

Malindi Transporters Association Sacco have been denied permission to hold a demonstration against alleged harassment by Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA) in Malindi town.

The transporters claimed KeNHA officials had manipulated mobile weighbridges to inflate the weight of cargo ferried by trucks along Kilifi County roads.

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