Ksm Tuk Tuk operators vow to carry passengers

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Kisumu Tuk Tuk Operators during today's peaceful demonstration to protest the move requiring them to carry only luggage but not passengers within Kisumu City-Photo Courtesy

By Dickson Odhiambo

December 7, 2022

Ksm Tuk Tuk operators vow to carry passengers

Various Tuk Tuk Operators in Kisumu City have vowed to carry on with their business of ferrying passengers to various destinations within the lake side City despite the City Management of Kisumu telling them to carry luggage.

The Tuk Tuk operators led by their leaders says the move by the  Kisumu Acting City Manager Abala Wanga to issue a notice directing them not to carry passengers but only luggage is not very much in order.

Evans Orinde Nyamaya, Secretary General of Kisumu County Tuk Tuk Association says they are currently paying shs 1,200 monthly for the sticker to the County Government of Kisumu to allow their Tuk Tuk to operate hence telling them not to carry passengers within the City is not in order at all.

He says the Move by the City Management of Kisumu is ill-advised and such a decision should be reversed at all cost.

Nyamaya says the City Management of Kisumu now wants them to carry only luggage but has not provided the designated points for them to do so.

The Tuk Tuk operators claim that the City Management of Kisumu has now taken over the roles of the National Transport and Safety Authority{NTSA}, adding that Tuk Tuk are designed to carry three passengers and not luggage as pick-ups and other vehicles.

They vowed to continue operating within the City and carry passengers, adding that it is their means of livelihoods where their families depend on for survival.

They claim that despite paying tax to the County Government of Kisumu, there are no services that the City Management of Kisumu has offered them.

They vowed to stay put within the city while doing their work without interfering with anyone as they have been doing all along.

The Tuk Tuk operators demonstrated peacefully along the streets in Kisumu City matching to the City Hall which houses the offices of Kisumu Governor where they sought audience with the Governor.

Efforts to get Kisumu Acting City Manager Abala Wanga bore no fruit as he was said to be in a meeting and could not comment by going to press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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