Mpaka the cops with their bashed in car look helpless as the daredevil youths "warmed up" for Meru. Ya Kenya twetu tweli twashangaza.

Watashangaa...

Highly doubt. You might have noticed the police vehicle was parked on the road as the madness was going on. These are untouchable vehicles. It's what happens when corruption becomes a way of life.

You might have noticed that traffic cops nowadays only harass private motorists. Simple reason. You can't touch matatus. Every Sacco has a budget for the traffic department. The annual figure is in excess of 1B. Was shocked to learn that a very disciplined sacco with a remarkable safety record has a Kes 6M budget annually. In their books it's recorded as marketing expenses. Can only imagine the budget for umoinner, ongataline, citihoppa and the other lawless saccos.

Knowing how jubilee leaders are, this money goes all the way up. Higher than matiangi.

Guys don't value their lives. How do you even attempted to do that. Best way do deal with this is to get the owners of the Matatu and deal with them proper. Weka kwa yard for a month.

Boss, I thought we agreed on this forum that it is grossly unfair to compare kibaki to jubilee. Like our people say,"you do not compare sleep to death."

Econ 101. A matatu is a business and you can't force competing businesses to use uniform branding or no branding at all. All businesses use their unique branding to connect with their customers. Ever heard of market segmentation or market positioning? Or should govt also force KQ, Fly540 and airkenya to all be painted white with a yellow stripe and not to offer any inflight entertainment to stop "childish" competition?

Have you been to Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia? Its possible to have a uniform color scheme for public transport.. Let us not argue for the sake of it. In the USA they have the yellow cab, while in UK its the black cabs and red buses.. Globally it has been done, so why not our matatus? Of what benefit to Kenyan society is it to have a matatu named Savage or Killa with half naked ladies printed on its sides and deafening music on the inside.. Muchuki had a clear mind

The owner of the business is responsible for it and i don't understand how Matatu business is no different. The day we recognize this and start dealing with them according, then order will be achieved. Hakuna meneno na driver, ooh sacco etc, deal with the owner kabisa.

My friend,I know we may not want to change the status quo, but matatus time should have come to an end a while back especially for major towns. The problem is not the matatus, the problem is that matatu culture is outdated and hence the many troubles. The do not fit in with this time. The only reason we keep them is political (read votes) and lack of ideas of how to get decent jobs for our youth.

If a bouncer misbehaves, you don't close the club but if bouncers misbehave, you close it.