The boda boda operators have taken over most cities in the nation. They have become an escape to most people who want to navigate around the congested cities faster.
But the boda boda operators have always formulated their own rules of maneuvering in the city. More often you will find boda boda operators using the wrong side of the road with the aim of avoiding traffic jam in the city. Some may invade the foot paths.
Due to their unlawfulness traits they have led to increased number of accidents across the country.
The Nairobi city has vowed that enough is enough.
City Hall will recruit 800 additional officers (askaris) to beef up the enforcement of by-laws in the capital.
Nairobi County government says in its annual development for the 2019-20 financial year that lack of enough personnel has derailed enforcement of city by-laws including the ban on boda-bodas from operating within the city centre.
It will spend Sh600 million by June 2020 to recruit and train the new staff who it hopes will boost efforts to maintain law and order within the city.
The number of officers under the dreaded inspectorate unit remains unclear, but former head of the department Peter Mbaya said they had 97 officers as at January.
“The county will recruit 800 constables in the 2018-19 financial year to increase manpower for effective and efficient service delivery,” City Hall says in the plan.
City Hall added that the staffing deficit had curtailed efforts to rein in on breaches such as littering, hawking and business operating without licences.