Police in Nairobi are investigating an incident where a matatu conductor was beaten to death by his colleagues operating in the Kasarani – Mwiki route. It is allegedly reported that operational officers from the route beat him up because he added an extra ksh.20 to the normal fare.
According to the deceaseds wife, Winfred Kimanzi, she says that he was being nice despite adding the fare charges because he wanted to drop the passengers all the way to Mwiki as opposed to leaving them stranded at a stage by the name, Stima area.
He told me he did not see the point of charging the passengers Ksh.80 then drop them off at Stima area and leave them stranded looking for another vehicle to take them to Mwiki. So he decided to charge Ksh.100 then go straight to Mwiki
On that fateful evening, the bus Kamau was operating left the MSL terminus along Tom Mboya street and on reaching Kasarani, two alleged MSL officers boarded the vehicle and asked passengers how much they had been charged.
According to Citizen TV, it is then that the officers started beating up Kamau, accusing him of tainting the Sacco’s name by overcharging customers.
The Mwiki Sacco company denied all claims, however, a former conductor with the MSL Sacco, Samuel Mungai, claimed that this was not the first time as it has been a habit of certain officers in the Sacco to beat up matatu operators.
The exact cause of his death will be known after a postmortem on his body is conducted today, Monday.