Urgently tame boda boda culture lest it eat us all up

The benefits of boda boda to the economy over the past decade are all too obvious. Motorcyclists provide swift yet affordable transportation with the industry creating thousands of jobs and becoming a vital source of livelihood.

But riders have become a plague that the government must expeditiously deal with. Kenyans are no longer sure how to protect themselves from the mobs. There are fears that the ugly side of boda bodas is fast eclipsing their usefulness as criminals and errant riders increasingly use them to wreak mafia-like havoc with impunity.