Ksm Tuk Tuk operators vow to carry passengers
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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