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It has not been an easy week so far for commuters in Nairobi, Kenya. Drivers of the city's minibuses, known as matatus, went out on strike on Monday and for much of the day on Tuesday in protest over extortion and corruption by the police. The result was transportation chaos and horrendously overfilled commuter trains, such as the one seen here.
The strike was called off after Prime Minister Raila Odinga promised to address the matatu drivers' grievances. Matatu union head Dickson Mbugua said that police roadblocks are often used to collect payoffs from the minibus drivers. He said that the two-day strike cost the police roughly €41,270 in bribe money they normally would have collected.
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