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Why the public has to wait until 2024 for safer matatus

Only 322 matatus on Kenyan roads have complied with the new vehicle body structure standards, the national transport agency has revealed.

Fearing a transport crisis, the agency announced that it would not pull out any of the estimated 200,000 public service vehicles from the road for not conforming to the new standards until May 2024.

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