Online taxi drivers in Mombasa have downed their tools protesting what they call exploitation by firms running taxi-hailing apps.
The drivers parked their cars along the Mombasa-Malindi road just outside Butterfly Pavilion, forcing any taxi to stop and join the strike.
The drivers said the firms Uber, Taxify, Little Cab and Mondo-Ride have exploitative rates that are of no benefit to the taxi drivers.
Yusuf Ibrahim, who uses both Uber and Taxify, said they fail to hit the target set by their partners most of the time because of the low fares.
Partners are vehicle owners who hire drivers to take clients around and wait for a set amount at the close of business every day.
Most of the partners ask for between Sh1,500 and Sh2,000 a day.
“For the same distance that a tuk tuk charges Sh300, we are forced to charge Sh150. We don’t understand whether tuk tuks are better than us,” Ibrahim said.