The bodaboda name carries its outlaw's origin of a mispronunciation to mean 'border border' - referring to the bicycles that transported people and luggage across the Uganda-Kenya border.
Amos Kimunya, then Finance Minister, made a populist move that zero-rated importation of motorcycles below 250cc in return aiming at achieving the 0.5 million jobs a year promised by the retired President Mwai Kibaki's government.
Nyamira youths are not exceptional, they form the 64 per cent of the current unemployed population in Kenya despite the Jubilee government promising 6.5 million jobs per year.
Whether they have gone to school with good certificates, that cannot guarantee them desirable formal employment, both are in the transport industry, the famous bodaboda.
Joshua Ombeo, a graduate from Moi university cannot body forth between Sh10,000 for a month working in a private law firm with at least Sh1,000 a day from bodaboda. He says "hapa sina shida" he is okay.
"I tour the village, I am a king of our local girls and I provide solutions to stranded commuters late in the night," says Ombeo.
Agwata, a teacher and a rider at Nyamira town says "we go to school in the morning with my friend here Joel, and later in the evening our Modus Operandi, we use our motorbikes to make extra coins for our families. We can't wait for BOM for a whole month to give us tokens."
On a good day, Joel says he makes up to Sh1,500 which wholly translates to a good pay for a month.
Their usual customers said they would prefer a ride from a reasonable and clean rider.
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