Imagine this,
You are a matatu owner, It's 11 a.m and your driver calls you to say, ''Munene gari imeshikwa!''
To waste a full day without work, is a huge loss in the matau biz, as there are cost implications. Insurance pekee ni 8000 per month, equivalent to around 300 per day! There are loans to be paid and police to be dealt with.
These are just some of the scenarios a friend of mine found himself in when he took out a loan to buy a matatu. Thinking that it would make him lots of money as a second biz, he was dead wrong! He says that business almost took him out 😫!
Mara the matatu has broken down, and he needed to buy a new gearbox. Another time it's the mechanic, driver and makanga conspiring to fleece him of his hard-earned cash eti gari imeamka ikitoa sauti flani.
This was the last straw! Ilibidi auze hiyo nissan. Meshers in the matatu sector, do you ever make profit? How?
