No Passengers, No Problem: Watch Kitale Matatu Crews Hold Relay Races During Nationwide Strike

While tens of thousands of Kenyans struggled to get to work on Monday, matatu crews in Kitale found their own way to wait out the day: they turned the town’s usually chaotic bus park into an improvised athletics track and held relay races with sticks for batons.

The scenes at the Kitale terminus stood in sharp contrast to the transport paralysis gripping the rest of the country as the nationwide matatu strike over soaring fuel prices brought public transport to a near-complete standstill. Touts and drivers sprinted around the empty bus park in mock relay races while pedestrians, small-scale traders, and onlookers cheered, laughed, and shouted encouragement from the sidelines.

What would ordinarily be a noisy, crowded hub filled with revving engines, conductors shouting out routes, and commuters rushing in every direction had been reduced to an open playground for idle crews with nowhere to go and nothing to do.

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