Millions of workers, at every level, have been locked out of work.
The transport industry has itself lost billions of shillings by pulling its vehicles off the roads.
The transport turmoil, apart from the huge disruption of business and social life, has exposed a total breakdown of law and order.
We have a police service that has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that it is either totally unprepared to handle the smallest of disruptions, totally out of depth or it just does not care, or worse, it probably supports the chaos.
How can anybody justify the blocked roads and burning tyres, yet we have a police service with trained men and women, is beyond our comprehension.
The chaos provided a glimpse of the dangers of large hordes of jobless youth and the mayhem they can unleash when they direct their energies to the wrong targets.
It’s a major relief that the strike was called off yesterday afternoon, but it is a stark reminder that we are sitting on a powder keg that can explode and ruin businesses and institutions that have taken decades to build.
Quote of the day: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” —English philosopher, political economist and utilitarian John Stuart Mill was born on May 20, 1806
