Since its inception, the government’s Vehicle Inspection Unit has been known as a hub for corruption with motorists who take their cars for checkups forced to part with kitu kidogo whether their vehicles are serviceable or not. It is alleged that to avoid the tedious and mostly ineffective inspection, many fleet and individual owners of public service and commercial vehicles choose to part with hundreds of thousands of shillings through brokers to bribe the inspection unit personnel. Inspection stickers are then delivered to them at home, shopping centres or in their offices. It is an open...
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