New licensing rules may lock out small matatu, bus owners

14-seater matatus. Draft regulations by the Transport ministry may act as an entry barrier to the fluid PSV business by locking out small entrepreneurs. FILE

Kenya’s chaotic public transport system will have no individual investors when a new set of tough rules comes into effect later in the year.

The new rules, to be gazetted later this month, restrict the issuance of public service vehicle (PSV) licences to companies that own at least five vans.

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