WHO WILL COME TO THE AID OF KENYA’S POOR ?
In late october 2013 , Kenyans awoke to the sad news of a fatal
accident involving a train and a matatu operating on the Umoja route .
In keeping with our notorious tradition of locking the gate after the
horse had long bolted , the cabinet secretary transport and
infrastructure acted by cancelling the operating licence of the
Umoiner sacco whose buses , he claimed , operated without valid
licences. Coming from the Cabinet secretary , it was a damning
indictment on the traffic department of the police and his ministry ,
whose staff are guilty of complicity in circumventing the laws .
The cabinet secretary gave an order to demolish all structures ,
residential and business , constricting the railway line . His concern
was that the proximity of these structures to the railway line was a
threat to…
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