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Matatu industry defends itself over fatal incidents amid outrage

Torched Embassava Sacco at Kware area along Outering road. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The 17-year-old boy who fell off, and was run over, by an Embassava Sacco bus on Wednesday along Outering road was not pushed out by a conductor over bus fare, Federation of Public Transport Sector Secretary General Dickson Mbugua has said.

He jumped off after realising he had forgotten his cell phone at home, and was impatient after he was informed he would only be allowed to disembark at the next bus stop.

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