High fuel cost weighs down bodaboda operators

A boda boda operator carries two passengers along Uhuru Highway, Nairobi.[Elvis Ogina, Standard]

A song released about 14 years ago by the group Boomba Clan, titled ‘African Timer’ talked about how Africans rarely keep time.

But all over Kenya, the motorbikes, popularly known as bodaboda, have been an antidote to the ‘lateness syndrome’.