GANGSTER SACCO | Unearthing rot in matatu industry
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- It’s a sector that embodies impunity, corruption and bribery all rolled into one evil trinity that has earned itself the status of an institution.
From rogue drivers to rude and violent conductors and on to faceless mobsters, Kenya’s Matatu Sector is nothing short of a haven of the domestic terrorists.
They are rulers of bus stations, they control matatu routes and run all the vital functions of the public transport sector; and all the while reigning over terrified passengers with iron fisted tactics that include outright violence, threats and intimidation, and even abduction.
The authorities; from the ministry of transport, ministry of interior, National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) and the police traffic department have been swinging between indifference and helplessness, resignation and collusion as gangsters run the Matatu or indeed the entire Kenyan public transport sector
On the eve of the so called crackdown on lawlessness in the public transport sector, we bring to you the face of not just impunity, corruption, and anarchy, but also the heart of evil itself.
Citizen TV’s investigative journalist Purity Mwambia has been traveling undercover with Matatus and Buses that ply various routes in Nairobi and across the country and brings you horrifying experiences Kenyan passengers go through in the hands of what we now here on Citizen TV nickname ‘Gangster Sacco’.
Over now to Purity Mwambia with our special investigative story ‘Gangster Sacco’. #GangsterSacco #MatatuLawlessness
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This citizen TV special investigative news reporter is the best journalist in Kenya ever! I indeed like purity whenever she report.purity qualifies to be an international reporter without any question. This lady purity got no time to take her appearance by masking herself with make_ups she is always natural.God bless you purity fo good job. May there be barrier fo those who might want to corrupt ur excellent job. Continue girl.
wow i have noted that too ..i wish we can have such many natural journalist..wengine hukaa kaa posho mill...
I too am a fan of hers, all the way in the U.S.! She is clearly very brave and has great integrity.
'Make_ups' 😂
kwenda uko
This is the Kenyan way, plain and simple. Name one Kenyan institution where there is no corruption. Even the church is not immune
Without this women giving us what is happening in our country sijui tukejua nini...God bless
Purity Mwambia has hugely been missed. Amepotea sana! Her reporting has always been accurate and professional. She has a unique voice…
Why blame them, the rot in the transport industry is a reflection of the society they live in and interact with. We encourage them to overlap during rash hours, board full matatus, don't alight at designated bus stops, the list is endless. An inner reflection should bring us more insight before blaming everyone but ourselves.
Same thing can be said about the leaders we elect
Well said.. Leaders are a reflection of the people
Leaders are the people first, well...
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I agree. The things is, there is no good guy in society, but it is easy to feel self righteous about not doing what someone else is doing.
That kawangware guy, he really assist alot, he forces drivers to give way.. bure jam ingekua hapo sana
Bring back Rhino Squad and Kwekwe!!
Nowadays living in Kenya it's like persevering to be a human being & that must stop by first dealing with the source of all this evil.. May GOD raise brave & no-nonsense leaders like Michuki may he RIP..
Couldn’t help but notice the beautiful sign language lady on the bottom right of the screen.
kweli bro, apo sawa
@@kulenimaperakundekuku6036 c 98or
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There will never be proper law when the law enforcers are the most corrupt. Simple and clear.
fred mutuma ,they r even never paid wanaabiwa eda ujitafutie..wat do u expect?....
fred mutuma Amen! I don’t know why many don’t get this! For the police officers/law enforcers, they need to recruit only the most qualified individuals/the best! Empower/retrain the police, pay them well with good benefits. After this, any found to be corrupt, put em in, in prison! Otherwise this show off with Matiang’i will be just for a moment, then we’re back to square one!
jotaya ,if mca analipwa 100k+ na cop 18k a month, ..how do u expect a cop to educate n live with his family??..
Joe Wamwai Watcha you talking bout? Reread my comment please! Ponder it!
jotaya,.. reread mine too..n try get the main point..
This is better produced than most us news shows, modest appropriate outfits, good set/graphics sign language translator and these two speak clear as hell
credit to the courageous journalist. Bravo. I am so proud of you. A very good report. Thank you for highlighting this menace
in my opinion, this was long over due but the kamagera thing is taken way out of proportion, they just help the matatu crew to get more customers, instead of lazying around, they do this as hustle...the problem is with the matatu association, police, the owners and cartels who are against a public and standard mode of operation.
Purity u need to do a season 2 of the 'gangsters sacco'.this time tell the kamageras to introduce u to there families n kids,it brings joy to see most of them providing for there families...n don't be soo blinded by the 20's they collect ...multiply that to how many families benefit from that 20 Bob.n maybe address the issue the accidents and kamageras separetly ....can't wait for the 2nd season
Also in season 2, Introduce us to their drinking spot as well
Well said
This Simon Kimutai chairman of Matatu Association has been their chair since early 2000's on tv he talks like a harvard graduate yet has no teeth or nuts to comprehensively ascertain a modicum of sanity in his own industry.We cant keep losing lives because of this madness sure safety belts,speed governors,retraining apart from getting rid of the Art works on them as an artist that am against but all else the government should not relent and should get even tougher!!Am in a state called victoria in Melbourne the death figure last year on the roads was about 267 and was considered unacceptable!that's about 8x more in Kenya.We need tech and even more serious laws to stop 2000 plus people dying from madness on kenyan roads.
its not his industry kwani he owns all the matatus?you are also responsible the same way i am and the same way the government is
Ok
Am more worried about this season of travels we are heading 😥😥 Mungu atulinde
There are saccos that follow the law and do as is expected of them, a good example is chepkoilel matatu sacco in Eldoret Uasin gishu county, i challenge citizen tvs journalists to head there and see for themselves. This sacco has visionary leaders to the extent of purchasing buses that are owned by the sacco and every member having shares in the assets, collectively they own a carwash and a petrol station. Such people should be praised for their high level of organisation and used as an example to those that have proven to be rogue. Let us join hands in being part of the solution and not part of the problem by glorifying rogue operators
Displine & maybe NYS
True! Just coz bad people get their way, it should not prevent good people doing what is right. Evil continues to exist when good people do nothing but whine n whine only
I Was a Kamagera In Rongai While Doing My Degree, It Helped Raise My Rent Fee... Not Every Matatu Guy is a Thug. It's a Way Of Life. I'd Earn Around 500-1000 Bob From around 5pm To 11pm at Night.
Sio Kila mtu gang star I have a friend who did the same. Akona degree but no job so matatu before apate job akitaka. And he was and is kind
Why do passengers accept to board a full matatu as excess passengers? no one forces them
Inaitwa shida....u just have to experience it
Be late for work AGAIN and risk being fired AGAIN or board a full matatu AGAIN? hmmmmmm ..... board full matatu again it is!
Tifu Adrere or wake up earlier
mafarso 2016 hakuna shida... I don’t even know how to describe this phenomenon
Haha are you kenyan? Matatu heading to a specific route, zinapanga line. One leaves after the other is full. Mnajazwa hadi wa sambaza. Woe unto you if that is your daily route. Utanunua gari
Wekeni jeff hapo pia mbona anapeleka gari bila plates??
He is president friend ...so he is above the law!
Matiangi remove that mafia group.
Let's be real with what's happening in real life, this young men and women are unemployed, and they need to feed their families.. Kamagera's help drivers and conductors to take a break after a long drive(staying in jam).so as one can earn 100 Bob, which he has really worked for - touting isn't easy, imagine you're in a bus stop, there are 5 more mini buses and each carries 33 passengers.. . If the government has implemented or created job opportunities to the youth, this wouldn't be happening...as far as I know coz I so use matatu daily, the government should first deal with the impunity they've created( due to corrupt traffic men in uniform..)
Show this unemployed men and women how to earn money and not cutting short where they usually get their daily bread..
This thing has been happening for decades.. It didn't just start..
If I start liking roads with my tongue (which ishard work by any standard) .... Would you support me because am "working hard"?
Show grown up ass men how to earn money! The most naive thing said here yet!
dude....you dont want your neighbor get richer. Why should educate them? That is the source of corruption..jealousy.
@@bangroji How do you show a grown ass man how to make money? You create avenues to generate money not showing them. Our biggest problem is we are lazy and only wanna wait till there is someone to us how to make money. Innovate, create avenues, identify gaps and fill them. Don't just wait. That is folly in its glory
@@WINDEL010 with internet era...now the education maybe faster 10 times that long time ago. People get idea to exploit money without need to waste money on useless education. I agree with you about lazy being the biggest problem...but in under development country....monopoly in economy is real my friend.
Throw back to when Diesel was 109/ltr
this people are genuine workers just like anybody else they are just freelancer operators
Lack of jobs and poverty... I don't blame those youths
Go to ksm bondo usenge your will faint. Guys are packed like omena. Conductors rude and arrogant. If you disagree hata utazabwa makofi. This insanity should stop.
yes my ushago yaani mnafinywa mpaka unashindwa kubreathe ,u travel but u are just praying mfike salama
Interesting observation. But isn't it implying that the guys who are packed like omena have the brains of omena? How do they get packed like omena unless they are also active architects of their situation? Let's learn to take charge of matters within our control.
Very true na wengine dont seem to take a shower and will be quick to strech their armpits across your face
Not Bondo Usenge the city go to machakos county bus the conductors are rude you are forced to board an excess bus and the list is endless
When citizens refuse to do as these crooks want they will find other ways since even the law enforcement agencies don't help keep them in check. Total chaos and lawlessness.
Kamagera is the the new kamjesh kwe kwe and rhino think dealt with them squarely in early 2000s
It has been months since her first investigation at citizen..i love her work. She is great
I love her work too.
Kimutai n police should be ashamed
Well done Purity Mwambia, saw you deep in there chasing this story, you have balls of steel!!
😂😂😂😂the irony i can't
"They call this Sambaza"✊🏿😂😂
Thanks for noting our EXISTANCE
Simple solution to this problem. Just do away with cash payment. Make card payment mandatory. It will be goodbye to corruption which is at the root of this. Make sacrifices if you want peace of mind..bribes only make matters worse not better
Well said...
How is this from Citizen? Totally void....empty....ndufia
If I can walk I walk juu matatu sometimes or board a train it's cheap and no jam
iam done with matatu business in totality.
I can't blame the matatus
Zinakuliwa na watu wengi Sana
That guy from Kawangware helps it out btw.....
Azin the jam in that junction its ruthless in the morning from the matatus cuing on the stage for long
Very true
They create the jam themselves kwanza apo rusinga deliverance. Unapata kuna jam ya magari ukikuja Congo kutoka Kangemi lakini ukivuka kwenda deliverance hakuna matt.
Police na cartel wanacreate choke point apo Congo.
Reporters aki nawa 👍👍👍👍👍👍 hii kazi sio rahisi, Mungu awe anawarinda aki
If these youths or 'illegitimate' Sacco 'employees and gangs' could be absorbed into the NYS and refined, then the Government tasks the NYS to man all the Matatu stages and their operations, this chaos could end entirely. The *National Youth Service* have successfully done this before (for those who were born post 90s) and there was sanity and order!
Hii ni ufala...makamagera husaidia kujaza gari,nd wale madereva wanaexchange inaitwa 'skodi' unalipa mtu akufanyie job yako
the gorvernments..and the police knows well who are this Gangs..since they also take kitu kidogo from them...wanainchi na wenye magari ndio wataumia.thank you
We know all this ... The question is: What are they going to do about it?
Solutions...
Purity the best reporter and FBI
Wafuate seria police wakule wapi. Police are the worst matatu gangster in Kenya
Ezekiel Mwaniki ,Hao cops hawana mishahara mnataka wakule wapi?..
May the Almighty God protect Purity Mwambia and her crew
Powerful intro. Living this! We need to take this sector away from private ownership!!!
Please live your life... They are living their lives wacha wapate haki yako wewe unalipwa fiti achana na wengine...
If Kenya 🇰🇪 no quick action will be take as National Kenya will be come mafias county private country for gangsters 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 poor Kenya 🇰🇪 which was most respected country before those goods days 😭😭😭😭
Top notch journalism
The Kamagera dude in red tshirt though, lol
he's a crack head lol
And the journalists buy news too from private reporters. What's the difference?
Exactly
If they want to deal with this situation, ..police alipwe poa kuliko mca,police apewe gari yake mwenyewe na serikali ijue Jia za kutafuta pesa..,..
Politicians wanalipwa ngapi na bado wanaina,‘not all politicians though'
Mwafrika hatosheki na pesa how much does ruto have na bado anaiba...this is not dubai.
Citizen you are not telling us anything we don’t know....where will this people earn a living if they don’t do this job...and this hypocritical Kenyans saying this should end I ask you will you host this folks in your house when they don’t have a means to a living...tuambiane ukweli our government has failed and we should accept the reality as it is
Kwako afadhali crime iendelee juu magaidi pia wanahitaji job? Hawa watafute mbinu ingine. In fact system ikiwa clean ndio serikali itaulizwa maswali nyeti ndio waajibike
Kamagera r the best the help alot
Jeff and Victoria, if you look at Matatu industry from formal point of view, you will miss the point.
The following are taken as given;
Police are always right
Mysterious parties must be given their dues.
No receipt given
8:38 uyo ndo Otile Brown wa kamagera
There are 4 problems here, all having cartels: This mentioned cartels, they pay the police & policebosses cartels who pry daily bribes. Third is the unfollowed Michuki laws, work laxity by the Ministry bosses. Fourth problem is the proper signs on the road. All those should be addressed
No sign post for SGR so i got bus to mbsa.
But media acting like Kenya ni majuu, si kila mtu ufanya job kwa media, matatu crew they know how they do their job and earn a living, so acheni kuchomea ma youths wengine
Bangi is real
Thank you
You cannot blame them, they are better doing what they are doing than reign terror on citizens...wakitoka hapo wataenda wapi? Hiyo 20 bob inamsaidia akule na akunywe..Govt should create job opportunities for these youths..
Unemployment is a ticking time bomb
kila mtu lazima akule
Make a day and come to Thika near UTI then you will know that corruption is still going on
mimi kwanza sipendi hawa watu wakuforce watu kwa gari .. very bad..
per day in a bad business conductors go with 200 that is the lowest
That storyline is powerful
What's news?? Any Nairobian know this?jungle rules
Compare south Africa where matatus have even kiwi polished tyres all time....
Beautiful reporting.
Good story,but i feel the editor let purity down.a black screen in the 40th second.too much shots repetition but general kudos purie
Makarao ndio sana they fear lazima utoe hongo au ushikwe
He're is Kenya 1960 side
I call it redistribution of income. Imagine all that daily earnings going into one person. It's immoral. So kamagera are a necessary evil
i agree, everyone's got to eat
They are ruthless, but usually play second fiddle to their brothers and sisters in uniform, the merciless KENYA POLICE !!!
The reason I can never invest in matatu sector. Full of criminals
Can you point the thieves who snatch phones and pickpocket at Githurai 45 stage,and where they sell those phones,coz they collaborate with the touts
The only thing to be done is to create jobs at county levels most of these guys leave ushago to nairobi in search of greener pasture when it turns sour they turn to any gangs so county government should do something...if we have branches of all these major company in most counties and employ guys over there no one will come to hustle in nairobi,haki you bring your abroad friend to nairobi and you get adhamed on how these guys rub shoulders in bus stations so dirty drunk and smelly anyway something needs to be done....As a guy pointed it out the most succesful countries transport is run by government but our government is so corupt, our president says he wants to leave a legacy of peace (steal while i dont shout) thats peace he got from opposition.
Who else feels helpless?
in a country with no opportunities i wouldnt blame them
make it like china... leta governments vehicles kwa road... then the money ni ya civilians and county and pia roads
Jeff's face doesn't match the colour of hands...😁😁😁
Mac foundation
It's the makeup applied before getting on set
same for his pompous accent!
Aaaaaiiii, wewe ni nini?
Purity purity who is the question for?
Problem is unemployment. Shunning them won't create a solution. So the problem will still exist even till this day. So the day the government will decide to pull up their socks, they will still be hustling. Human instinct is to survive. I hope that resonates.
Mob love for Mr matiang'i
In tanzania everything is done with govt from route allocarion to bus fare allovation ,no tribal warhead goons manning stages and saccos,
Kenyas saccos are a hive of thiefs,thugs and cartels with a thief govt blessing,
Ony God help us in Kenya
police ukulia sana just go to bars unapata police wanakuja in different sijui hawa niwagani wanapewa mia mbili then another group mia unapata per by the time bar inafungwa police wamekula 1000+ then mwenye bar akichelewa kufuga hata na 5min anashikwa huko pia its eaither atoe hongo ama apelekwe kotini
"Kazi yangu ni ya kutoa jam"
That guys work is legit... sijaona shida na hiyo
And the idiot gets 1.5M monthly 🙄🙄
How? U gotta be back kidding me.
@@petermbeda9214 Hii masuti mnavaa hapa CBD
@@zadewetu am on ur side I was against the dude @clement saying the work is legit, hell no....
It's not in Kenya only even in UGANDA such scenes are observed in the MATATU INDUSTRY
Being from kawangware sometimes it's just funny
Interesting
Traditions and customs of matatu culture
It's futile to remove them from the street without an option... The law of nature goes they create will create another option to earn money anyway
Someone make me understand the GanstaSacco that's holding Kenyans hostage....why do you always have to exaggerate simple things??????Hakuna soko inakosa wazimu so don't generalize the whole matatu industry just because of few rogue elements. Kuna gari hupea watu good services mbona hukuonyesha hiyo ata wakati gari zilikuwa zina appreciate commuters on the first and last trips with snacks mlikuwa wapi??
EVANS MAKAU ,they r not there to show development but the bad stuff n exaggeration ,..what's wrong with doing u turn?..
Bad news sells...that's just the order of the world
Did u say few? Really, it's most not a few.
EVANS MAKAU ,huyo jamaa ikiwa ako na matt siapeleke barabara ni tuone vile zitafanya job....just reporting crap..
@@joewamwai315 You mean taking a *U turn on top of pavements* in the middle of a highway is not wrong? Watch the video again... Hapo Hamza! That's what I saw the video highlighting.
jus one word for this....................JOBLESNESS
4:57 hii samabaza ndio imerudi what do the transport industry ever do for the daily kenyan using this road..
i just have one solution. every traffic police should be re assessed after one year to renew his value to be a police man and serve the country for the good of the country.
please don't stop covering this type of news after every month until something is done.
Its now over, their goose is cooked by Dr Matiang'i
This commentator is a sleeping pill.
Citizen Tv you're really down on investigative journalism...am sorry
makanga as they are commonly known arent new to the system
ALL THIS AND NOTHING WILL BE DONE ABOUT IT...JUST NONSENSE
Ati they call it sambazaa...as if you dont know
Mungiki... mungikiism...
Expose them good job citizen TV.