Hundreds stranded after protesters block Kenya-Tanzania border

Trucks wait to cross into Tanzania from Kenya at the Namanga border post. Hundreds of travellers heading to either Tanzania or Kenya are stranded at Namanga border after angry Kajiado residents blocked the road to protest over a missing taxi driver. FILE PHOTO |  NATION MEDIA GROUP

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• "We are going to block this road until police tells us the whereabouts of our fellow driver taxi who was hijacked about a month now," Mr Magubira quoted one of the protesters as shouting.

By ADAM IHUCHA
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Hundreds of travellers heading to either Tanzania or Kenya are stranded at Namanga border after angry Kajiado residents blocked the road to protest over a missing taxi driver.

The angry residents on Monday around 10am blocked the highway linking Kenya and Tanzania in their attempt to push the police to act on the incident where a taxi driver has been missing for a month now.

Patty Magubira, a journalist working with our sister paper in Tanzania--The Citizen Newspaper in Arusha Bureau who is among those stranded said the angry residents set fire on the highway and blocked traffic from Kenya to Tanzania and the vice-versa.

"We are going to block this road until police tells us the whereabouts of our fellow taxi driver who was hijacked about a month now," Mr Magubira quoted one of the protesters shouting.

Mr Magubira who is travelling to Mombasa, Kenya explained that hundreds of tourists and local travellers are stranded on either sides of Namanga border, asking for help.