“We hereby issue 30-day notice to all the defiant apps that we shall be switching off and deleting all those apps at the end of the 30 days,” stated Wycliffe Alutalala, Secretary General of the E-Hailing Transporters Kenya lobby group.
Taxi-hailing app drivers such as Uber, Bolt, and Little have launched a new protest against rising fuel prices, which have caused their earnings to fall in recent weeks.
In mid-March, the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) set the price of a litre of Petrol in Nairobi at Ksh107.66, the highest in 9 years.
Taxi drivers are now complaining that the changes have made it difficult for many of them to stay in business, particularly those who have commercial loans on their vehicles.
They demanded a review of the app companies’ fares and commissions, threatening to turn off and delete the apps if they were not heard.
They specifically request that the commission be limited to no more than 15% of the total cost of their trip.
