How Akamba Bus Collapsed: Inside the Fall of a Kenyan Transport Giant

Let me guess? Bonobos in default settings stole? Oh my Gog what a revelation! Bonobos? Stealing? Shocking!

Wadau investors wote wa passenger transport business waliondokea izo biashara after Michuki na government kuingililia biashara zao na kuanza ku over regulate io industry.

1st generation heirs wa Akamba bus waliamua kuinvest resources zao kwa biashara zengine.

Sio eti company ilicollapse.

Waliondokea.

Wapi episode ya pinkie Chebet

The second generation was unable to continue the legacy… The founders of akamba died

people only care about money in their pockets, not legacy. haitashikilia company inakudrain energy yako eti juu ilianzishwa na mababu zako 200 years ago na hutaki io jina iishe.

sasa ivi ni era ingine. dunia imebadilika. huwezi anzisha company ununue more than 50 buses, then waziri aamke kesho aamue vile utarun biashara yako.

Uko na over 50 buses, unaserve not only Kenya but east Africa mzima, then mtu hana bus anakwambia weka gari kwa sacco, paka gari ii rangi ama ile rangi…

Utatoka kwa io biashara uwekeze kwa equally profitable businesses but zenye hazina io regulation mingi ya serikali.

Please note that you can run a bus company as a registered limited company. Not a must you join a sacco. It failed because the sons did not know how the employees steal because they have never been on the ground. You are raised in Karen and never used a bus in your whole life then you inherit a bus company in river road Nairobi. The Michuki rules did not lead to the decline of the transport industry rather it led to the boom of it.

Akamba insutry had no reason at all to fail. It would still be around even today and would be even bigger than anything we see because they were veterans. Their exit marked the emergence of cartels in Nairobi under the guise of Saccos. They should have stuck to their guns. Nobody was fighting that company at all.

energy ya kukimbizana na wezi unawalipa na kuwalisha unatoa wapi? you sell, even at a loss, na unaweka hela zako mahali safe. unakataa kulipa madeni, kama unaona ata ukilipa haitasaidia kufufua company yako. ao vijana walifanya poa kuwekeza hela hao mahali kwengine badala kuendelea kulisha wezi.