These were the beasts a decade ago. The Japan special and Sweden special “brands”. I still don’t know why they had these brand names. Rumour at the time had it that mama Ngina was a shareholder. But as many have observed, couldnt they “slaughter” them and dispose them?
This old guy strode the western highway like a colossus. It got to his head. The crew got very arrogant and abusive. They disregarded other road users as if they owned the road. When other bus companies tried to gave chase, wakatumia nguvu ya serikali then to whitewash competition. Even as small ‘Nissans’ aka shuttles started mushrooming, the crew would laugh at them. Tables were turned in an instant the day he refused to ferry PEV victims in early 2008. The rest is history. Ironically iko ng’ombe ingine who’s repeating the same mistakes. North Rift shuttle chuma chake ki motoni. Though he’s been a bit bright to diversify, his arrogance is nauseating
When they start getting old,he would have killed a few to.maintain the rest.Altogether each bus was bringing in revenue,why not keep a % of what each brought aside for maintenance
In other words, politics and business must be separated. The cost of taking political positions killed them.
Had they been neutral during election times they’d still be in business big time.
These mofos once made me stand all the way from Bungoma to Nairobi kwa night bus. Was during that new years back to Nairobi peak and it was the only bus kwa stage. Watu wamejaa mpaka wenye wamesimama pia wamefinyana. They lied to me at 60% of the guys are alighting in Webuye. Mimi huyo paid up and standing, tunafika Webuye instead of guys alighting wengine wanaongezwa! Nikajipa moyo nikasema Eld is a big station for them there will be more buses kwa stage. Shock on me, I stood all the way to Nairobi. Dozing off while standing.