This archive report was first published on 18 August 2019.
Published on August 18, 2019, a shocking scandal has emerged in Embakasi, Kenya, where a bus bought for a school has been converted into a commercial City Shuttle bus.
The bus, registration number KCE 129L, was purchased by the Embakasi South National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NGCDF) in the 2014/15 financial year for St Stevens Secondary School.
However, the bus was later re-allocated to Embakasi Girls' School, but it was involved in an accident that killed people. The bus was then taken to a garage, according to Irshad Sumra, the then area MP and current ODM by-election candidate.
But, in a shocking twist, the bus has been converted into a City Shuttle bus and is now operating in Nairobi. The bus owner, a Kisii resident, had it transported to Kisii and hidden at Nyangancha Market for three weeks.
The bus bears the brand colours and insignia of City Shuttle, a company that runs buses on several routes in Nairobi.
Despite the scandal, the director of St Stevens Secondary School, Mr Zablon Karani, claims he is not aware that the bus has been converted into a matatu. He said the bus is at the garage, but was unable to specify which garage.
However, residents in Kisii claim the bus had been there for more than three weeks and were wondering why a Nairobi-based vehicle had been abandoned in one of the most remote parts of Kisii County.
