{"id":67848,"date":"2022-09-10T14:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T14:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/umoja-i-mca-mugambi-vows-to-protect-taxi-drivers"},"modified":"2022-09-10T15:08:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T15:08:41","slug":"umoja-i-mca-mugambi-vows-to-protect-taxi-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/umoja-i-mca-mugambi-vows-to-protect-taxi-drivers","title":{"rendered":"Umoja I MCA Mugambi vows to protect taxi drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Umoja I MCA, Mark Mugambi Macharia, has promised to introduce a bill in the Nairobi County Assembly to secure picking and dropping zones for online cabs in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Saturday, Mugambi said the move was meant to protect the drivers from constant harassment by county constables.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis term I intend to bring bills that will support and favour our online taxi drivers. we should have them allocated picking and dropping zones within the central business district (CBD). This will curb the harassment they face from our county askari,\u201d Mugambi said.<\/p>\n<p>Mugambi also reiterated his desire to discourage a trend where foreign firms have been reaping big from online apps at the expense of local drivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ll also do a bill that will end the exploitation they face from the foreign apps. Our citizens need to be respected and appreciated and not abused,\u201d Mugambi said.<\/p>\n<p>The county legislator empathized with the drivers whom he said risked causing accidents due to a busy schedule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve all witnessed the numerous cases of our online taxi drivers involved in serious accidents, this is normally caused by fatigue as they work for longer hours without rest,\u201d Mugambi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis, therefore, puts the lives of the passengers at risk as they are not able to know if their driver is in a good driving condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edited by Tony Mballa<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. Umoja I MCA, Mark Mugambi Macharia, has promised to introduce a bill in the Nairobi County Assembly to secure picking and dropping zones for online cabs in the city centre. Speaking on Saturday, Mugambi said the move was meant to protect the drivers from constant harassment by county constables. \u201cThis term I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":67847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-67848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Umoja I MCA Mugambi vows to protect taxi drivers - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Umoja I MCA, Mark Mugambi Macharia, has promised to introduce a bill in the Nairobi County Assembly to secure picking an ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/umoja-i-mca-mugambi-vows-to-protect-taxi-drivers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Umoja I MCA Mugambi vows to protect taxi drivers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Umoja I MCA, Mark Mugambi Macharia, has promised to introduce a bill in the Nairobi County Assembly to secure picking an ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/umoja-i-mca-mugambi-vows-to-protect-taxi-drivers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-10T14:55:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-10T15:08:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_19-631ca861dad19.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/umoja-i-mca-mugambi-vows-to-protect-taxi-drivers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/umoja-i-mca-mugambi-vows-to-protect-taxi-drivers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Umoja I MCA Mugambi vows to protect taxi drivers\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-10T14:55:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-10T15:08:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/umoja-i-mca-mugambi-vows-to-protect-taxi-drivers\"},\"wordCount\":249,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/umoja-i-mca-mugambi-vows-to-protect-taxi-drivers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_19-631ca861dad19.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/umoja-i-mca-mugambi-vows-to-protect-taxi-drivers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/umoja-i-mca-mugambi-vows-to-protect-taxi-drivers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/umoja-i-mca-mugambi-vows-to-protect-taxi-drivers\",\"name\":\"Umoja I MCA Mugambi vows to protect taxi drivers - 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