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Transporters threaten to strike over hiked road maintenance levy

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Trucks in a past gridlock near Malaba, Busia County. [File, Standard]

Public transport sector players have threatened to go on strike if the new Sh25 road maintenance levy is not scrapped.

Addressing the media along Mfangano Street, Nairobi, Wednesday, associations of long-distance drivers, offline and digital taxi operators, and matatu operators termed the government's decision to increase the levy from Sh18 to Sh25 illegal and discriminatory.

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