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Githurai matatu crew charged with murder after pushing man out of bus

It is claimed that last year, the same bus crushed a college student who died after being pushed out for reportedly failing to alight at her destination. [Courtesy]

A driver and a conductor of a Githurai bus from which a man was pushed to his death last week have been charged at the Makadara Law Courts.

The driver Naftally Kalama Fondo, 33, and his conductor, Alex Macau Gikonyo, 20, of the bus christened Zam Zam that plies the Nairobi-Githurai route appeared before Chief Magistrate Hestone Nyaga on Friday.

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