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The ‘boda boda’ business: A pass out of poverty?

Boniface Wabwoba (in black jacket), standing next to his motor-bike in Bungoma town.  He tells me owning the motor bike has brought a lot of social and financial difference in his life. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

Fifty-year-old Boniface Wabwoba walks with a limp. He wasn’t born that way. This was the result of an accident he was involved in way back in 2011. He was in and out of hospital until 2015, when he went back to his ‘boda boda’ business.

But the limp has not dampened his spirit...

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