CRBC claims that drivers, in collusion with other manual labourers, are siphoning fuel from the vehicles as and reservoirs... Kenya Railways Research and Planning manager, Philip Mainga told Daily Nation on phone that the strike was started by defiant drivers after the contractor caught some of them siphoning fuel and terminated their employment.
“Together with the contractor we have been on the ground and done our investigations and found that there is already an existing cartel with businessmen along the road (Mombasa road) who are buying the loot,” he said.
..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".