Listen to What Matatu Owners told Pres.Ruto after ordered importation of duty free 100,000 Matatus

Indexed: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]So somebody wants to say something.

[00:00:08]Uh thank you very much your excellency.

[00:00:11]Ours is to say that I would like to first start by apologizing to the country for the time that uh we went on strike hours. We said the vehicle stay at home.

[00:00:28]But we realized goons infiltrated and uh some maybe political interests came in and people lost their vehicles.

[00:00:39]people lost the schools were vandalized and other institutions that was not us and uh that's why we saw it best to go for negotiations and as a result of the negotiations his excellency has been kind enough to to give us what we've cried for since independence the review of the insurance so I will not dwell to what the excellency talked out the auctioneers. Everybody who has a vehicle knows what is happening to us. We've lost more than enough. People have died because of stress and pressure. Now to yet to Nikushukuru Kosabu, we've moved a step in the best direction as an industry. Uh lastly, there were many things that we discussed. We've been given uh CS uh yeah CS um for for transport so that we go and complete all the other pending issues. We've uh maybe he did not have enough time to talk about it his excellency but we've the buses were being disturbed and we've been uh they have been uh waved from going to way bridges >> okay >> and many other things so ours is to say that we go to work and we hope that by the next cycle we'll get even better than the 10 shillings. So thank you very much your excellence.

[00:02:17]>> Thank you uh his excellency the president of the republic of Kenya. H as the transport sector we are happy with what you've come up with and we are going to support the government. The government belongs to us. We want to thank the governor of Nairobi because we know that the county of Nairobi lost a lot of money and we agreed with him that we have to work together to make sure that everything is going to work. So we want to thank the government. We want to thank the president. We know he has sorted out a lot of our issues which has been pending for long.

[00:02:52]>> The issue of 14 seater within Nairobi, Mombasa, he has sorted it out. We know very well within Mombasa we do not have uh new vehicles. We have old vehicles.

[00:03:02]We know what has been happening. Our people has been taking vehicles from Somali and Tanzania. The old vehicles to bring them here. They are not paying duty. So we welcome that his excellency.

[00:03:14]We are going to work with your government. We all of us we are Kenyans.

[00:03:17]We want peace in this country and we want to to to be united so that we can move forward. When the president talk about Singapore to me I've seen is a a reality. So let's put politics aside.

[00:03:30]Politics will come 2027. Let's build our country. Thank you.

[00:03:40]>> Okay. Sorry. We want to say something.

[00:03:42]We've called off the strike. We had suspended the strike, but we've called it off. So we will not have strike next week. We are going to work. Thank you.

[00:03:56]uh your excellency ours is to say thank you.

[00:04:02]My name is Edwin Mukabana, chairman of Federation of Public Transport.

[00:04:07]Mine today is very little is to announce to all our members especially our investors and drivers and conductors that after these good deliberations we have had with his excellency we are saying that the strike that we had suspended has been called off.

[00:04:38]fully and we are hoping that this will take immediate effect.

[00:04:46]Everybody to return the vehicles on the road and for the entire country to understand that I think there is an economy here to save and we are all looking forward to his excellency to ensure that he drives the agenda of public transport. We have been uh promised a lot of things including the electric motor vehicle. Your excellency I was on the task force for electric motor vehicle and uh we came up with very many resolutions. It is very good that today you have spoken to it.

[00:05:23]We further would like to thank you very much on your statement on auctioneering and uh insurance veh and insurance. This is fantastic for us.

[00:05:36]That is all I would like to say today for Wani.

[00:05:43]Please bear with us. I think the economy comes first. Thank you very much.

[00:05:50]>> Okay. Thank you.

[00:05:51]>> Okay. Gentlemen to the >> [music]