The Nairobi County Government has firmly stood by its earlier decision of banning boda bodas from accessing the CBD.
The riders have since fiercely opposed the move to bar them from picking and dropping passengers at the Nairobi Central Business District, engaging the council askaris in running battles.
According to the motorcycle operators, they are entitled to operate at the CBD.
The Inspectorate Department through its council askaris arrested more than 17 boda boda operators earlier this month and sized their motorbikes after they engaged in cut-and-mouse games. The operators were later charged and fined Sh. 2,000 each.
The inspectorate Department still insists the CBD is out of bounds for the boda boda operators.
“They have to go out of the CBD. Those who defy will not be tolerated,” Hillary Wambugu, the director of Inspectorate Department, said.
Some of the operators have since chosen to heed to the directive choosing to operate from outside the CBD. However, others have remained defiant of the directive, using all means possible to still operate within the Nairobi Central Business District.
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