So actually, finally, something could be done/has been done without much drama, no committee, no extra funding? You see, all it needs to correct some of these ills is just a firm leader.

true, when action is taken, it can act as a very effective deterrent.

Very true.

Let the videos continue so that we get to know and act.

Am drinking tonight to celebrate that arrest.

On monday I shall be at NTSA offices at times tower to deal with that lazy bone who told me nothing can be done...the video is not clear....the lady seems to ENJOY.Nkt

@sparkly. Kwani hizo buses ni zako? ..... get serious ehh. Action taken .....overreaction. No action ...complacency. garment is surely dawned whichever way. They should have been grounded for good. No time for rhetoric action pap.

yes this is good. these makangas drivers and matatu saccos feel too powerful becos of the. tufifties they give to police. all we need is just political will to get things done. not just talks.

@Sparkly, mtoto akililia wembe . . .

That decision by the GoK was extreem. As @Sparkly has stated, that is not how the law is supposed to work. Its not like all NAZIGI touts were involved, they got the culprits, why not deal with them ruthlessly like 5 years at Kamiti Prison without any chance of parole.

Abiut Touts behaving badly, my observations as a 44 route commuter are that NAZIGI, MARIMBA and 44 OWNERS buses and mini-buses are full of thugs (i have no evidence). The best bus company to use in that route is ZURI GENESIS followed by a very distant second by URBAN LINK.

That's why I say this is a catch 22 situation.

Infact, this is the area of responsibility that I agree with the President on.

Please note, I didn't like his comments of blaming the victim at all. That was plain wrong. But then again, the question of responsibility for a business entity is entirely different.

I don't expect the work of gov't is to punish businesses and financial ventures when they are against the community. As a pure capitalist, I believe that's the work of the community.

I would rather the community stop using Embassava matatus in retaliation and the business owners will act accordingly.

Why are as Dunkang has explained people still using those 44 mathrees they know are full of thugs. I'm going to those areas today and based on Dunkangs post, there are some I will not board.

When women say they are being raped in Embassava mats, why are they going with them? 2 days refusing to board them and those touts will change their behavior. Infact, those touts would have been taken back by their own touts. An issue of supply and demand.

Now, if we go ahead to give this gov't or any other gov't the right to punish businesses as a collective, then we may as well allow Mutotho to ban all beer since 3 stupid guys in Muranga got blind.

What the gov't has done is illegal. But now that women know the saccos that allow rapists in their midst, what have they done about it? Or are they going to blame Uhuru for their next rape on the same matatus?

Nothing is as powerful to a business person as money. Deny him that and you will see makangas being taken to catechism school by their owners.

I can assure you, those matatus will be on the streets on Tuesday having paid some bribes and no one on that route will complain.

If the Saccos in their wisdom allowed gov't to control their behavior as a collective, then shauri yao.

I still don't get this Sacco business and how they allowed themselves to be classified as saccos instead of companies?

If they allowed their behavior to be controlled by gov't then shauri yao. They can see the consequences.

But I still have a problem with a gov't entering my company to arrest a rapist then banning my business. I thought the law is applied to individuals not a whole community.

But as BigChick has said, maybe this was a wake up call to them. I know they knew which matatu was responsible. Infact, the owners knew instantly. They never brought these criminals to book. So let them suffer for their silence.

I'm a bit confused with this one to be honest. I agree with the punishment for the sacco, but on the other hand finding this to be a case of misplaced justice in a country where the law is becoming a useless beacon.

My take: The shutting down of that sacco, literally, may be legal or illegal, I surely don't know. That might be contested in court on Monday and lawyers will argue it out. I leave it to them. However, its good that someone attempted something. It will act as a deterrent in the meantime. Sacco's agreed to be taking responsibility on any of their member misbehaving. Remember Ummoiner too were out for a few days when one of them caused an accident. What those guys did is worse than the pain they will go through, plus more. That way, the bus owners will be careful on who they allow to hang in those buses; like someone said they are usually so many, almost 6 sometimes. When the bus is out of business for a week and you have a loan to pay, when the driver can't pay his bills for a week coz a bus he was driving had crooks on it under his watch, when those manambas can't afford cheap liquor coz they don't have a bus to hang on for a week, then, only then will all of them think twice before allowing such stupidities to happen ever again.