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Matatu owners in strike threat over Mungiki invasion
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Matatu (commuter taxi) owners in Nairobi have threatened to go on strike for three days starting next Monday if the government will not have evicted Mungiki sect members from city routes.
The Matatu Welfare Association officials said members of the outlawed sect had invaded at least eight routes and were extorting colossal amounts of money from matatu crew.
Association chairman Dickson Mbugua told journalists: “If our complaints will not have been addressed by Monday, we will have no option but to ground all matatus in Nairobi for at least three days.”
The matatu boss further demanded that police issue a statement on the sect, particularly over the disappearance of a bus-stage clerk on Route 23, Mr Josphat Gikonyo Njagi, who went missing last month.
Mr Njagi, the chairman alleged, wad abducted by Mungiki members on September 24 and has yet to be traced since.
“Our stage clerks have suffered serious injuries from attacks by the Mungiki who stab them and cut them with machettes. Enough is enough!” he told journalists.
But Buruburu divisional police boss Njue Njagi said investigations into the disappearance of Mr Njagi were still on.
The Mungiki members, Mr Mbugua added, forced crews to pay up to Sh200 every morning and a further Sh40 a trip by every vehicle on the routes they operated.
He estimated that vehicle operators were paying about Sh16 million in illegal fees to Mungiki gangs every month.
The association officials also complained of harassment during crackdowns by the traffic policemen.
Mr Mbugua claimed that vehicles were being detained for up to five days at police stations for allegedly flouting traffic rules.
“The government must stop the harassment of matatu owners and enforce laws impartially. They must also stop unnecessary matatu inspection,” Mr Mbugua said.
He said the Mungiki operated in routes 58 (Buruburu), 23 (Outering), 11B (South B), 32 and 42 (Dandora), 33 (IDH), 19/60 and 19/61 (Kayole) and 25 (Baba Ndogo).
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