The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has launched a manhunt for a driver and a conductor of a Meru matatu caught on camera harassing a woman and child in her company.
In a statement, NTSA directed Meru Shuttle Limited officials to present the crew members of the vehicle registration number KBU 254G to their Meru County offices on Monday 9 am.
This is after a public uproar after the video surfaced online.
In the video, the operators are seen forcing the woman and the child out of the vehicle while hurling unprintable insults at her after she allegedly declined to squeeze on an already full matatu.
A concerned passenger is heard in the background requesting the seemingly furious operators to consider the woman had a child.
NTSA Notice:Video on crew of KBU 254G (Meru Shuttle Limited) https://t.co/cdbHxNblR7 pic.twitter.com/mUNJOZMOp0— NTSA KENYA (@ntsa_kenya) March 10, 2019
However, the passenger’s concerns fell on deaf ears as they violently asked the woman to get out.
The driver of the vehicle is captured holding the woman’s bag as she alights.
He even at some point, questions attempts by the woman to ask for a refund of Sh50 fare she had paid.
“Shuka shuka, ulikua unalipia hapa?(Get out, get out, were you supposed to pay here)” he said.
The woman’s threat to take the vehicle’s registration number didn’t seem to move them either.
A Meru bound PSV (KBU 254G) driver and conductor forced a mother and her child out of the vehicle at Kenol after she declined to squeeze on the seats so that the driver could carry excess passengers. pic.twitter.com/8LrDoqyCpq— Kirgit🐮 (@Ronoh__) March 10, 2019
“Namba ya gari
📌 pic.twitter.com/yblCUCIkqO— Kirgit🐮 (@Ronoh__) March 10, 2019
Social media users asked the Kenya National Police to arrest the operators immediately.
https://t.co/UWXioIQGKD— Kirgit🐮 (@Ronoh__) March 10, 2019
This reminds me of a time in 2009 when I protested the doubling of fare to Maua. I had refused to pay 1500/=. To my surprise, the other passengers simply got in and paid the fare. Well, I boarded the next vehicle and paid 1500/=. This is why we’ll be oppressed for a long time.— Melchizedek Ouma (@MelchizedekOuma) March 10, 2019
