NYS plan to train boda boda riders a step in the right direction

The truth, however, is that we have had boda bodas for a decade now and majority of the riders are still untrained.

Recently, President Uhuru Kenyatta highlighted the important contribution of boda boda to our economy. Every day, the president said, those in the business make an average of Sh180 million. This amounts to Sh6.8 billion in a week and Sh27 billion every month.

That is a tidy sum of money. Of significance, the amount supports a big chunk of the population considering that most of the 1.4 million boda boda riders in the country have dependents. The still nascent boda boda industry therefore cannot be wished away.