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How fading boda boda boom is spawning bloodshed in villages

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A boda boda rider ferrying a passenger seated on a faulty motorcycle in Kakamega town. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

In 2008, President Mwai Kibaki lifted taxes on boda boda imports by zero-rating motorcycles of up to 250cc, creating a multi-billion-shilling market that would open up rural villages to new economies and prosperity.

This surge in income would grow Kenya's transport sector exponentially and the business that has sprouted around it has been immense.

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