Davies Ochieng’ is the cab driver who picked up Mildred Odira, a Foresight Company employee, from her Kariobangi South home at dawn on January 29. But what is more unsettling is the growing trend of cab drivers abetting crime or being caught up in complex murder mysteries. “If you can submit these documents in time, approval takes a matter of days,” says Kamau Gatune, a Kimathi Street-based cab driver. In the wake of crimes involving their drivers and customers, taxi services in Kenya have had to change tack. A case in point is the July 2018 incident involving Wankio Nyainda, who was assaulted by a Taxify driver.

Source: Daily Nation February 23, 2019 04:52 UTC