Tech savvy Uber undercuts Nairobi taxi drivers

Tech savvy Uber undercuts Nairobi taxi drivers

Uber app is causing ripples in Nairobi taxi biz/Citizentv.co.ke

By MUSYOKA NGUI

Uber has upstaged a Nairobi taxi association and cartels as we know them owing to their affordable prices compared to the incongruent and chaotic transport sector that needed the upstage the day before yesterday.

Uber is being lashed at its sin being a foreign company operating in a “sovereign republic” threatening to send the taxi drivers to inflation. The drivers, who did not show how they will do it, promised to counter Uber app by developing their own PSV software to counter the unprecedented growth of the US owned app.

In a characteristic American capitalist culture, Uber may just cannibalize the Nairobi taxi business. Seems human flesh is the sweetest after biscuit and sliced bread.

According to analogue 15,000 traditional taxi drivers, Uber is intent on cutting down their turn over by giving clients alternative availability and prices.

United Kenya Taxi Organization are alleged to have turned the transport business anarchy by attacking tech savvy Uber drivers and maliciously destroying the vehicles of Uber taxis.

Social media has been treated to Uber and UKTO taxi photos with the latter warning Uber reeks of monopoly and the government must move in to ensure Uber is regulated as UKTO have loans to service and families to feed.

Does this fly in the face of globalization of markets or protectionism of our infant industries is exposed to world business sharks? Hit me at musyokangui02@gmail.com