**Kenyan commuters have poured on to the streets from dawn to walk to work for a second day, as a strike by operators of minibuses known as matatus continues.**Disgruntled commuters in Nairobi told the BBC how they had to walk for two and a half hours to get to work.
Matatu operators are protesting against police harassment.
But the authorities say they are enforcing safety laws and Nairobi’s police chief has accused the strikers of blackmailing the population.
The BBC’s Christine Otieno in Nairobi says the capital has been transformed by the strike.
She says traffic is much lighter than usual and the streets are full of the sound of fast-walking feet.
‘No consistency’
While groups of schoolchildren were quite happy strolling to school, she said commuters were less enamoured by their altered journeys to work.
Eric Aligula, a policy analyst with the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, said there were underlying difficulties which needed to be solved.
“The bigger problem is a lack of an adequate policy framework - you have on and off implementation of some of these regulations,” he told the BBC’s Network Africa.
“The police have to enforce but there clearly has to be some policy consistency - which is lacking at the moment.”
Matatus are the main mode of transport in towns across the country. The strike is planned to last until Wednesday.
The matatus last went on strike in 2003 over new safety rules, but their protest fizzled out as the measures had strong public backing.
The latest protests were sparked when a new police chief took over and demanded a tighter enforcement of the rules.
One commuter told Network Africa programme he had set off walking at 0600 to get to work by 0830.
He was adamant that the strikers had little public support.