Hundreds stranded after protesters block Kenya-Tanzania border point
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- "We are going to block this road until police tells us the whereabouts of our fellow driver taxi who was hijacked about a month now," Mr Magubira quoted one of the protesters as shouting.
Hundreds of travellers heading to either Tanzania or Kenya are stranded at the Namanga border point after angry Kajiado residents blocked the road to protest over a missing taxi driver.
The angry residents blocked the highway linking Kenya and Tanzania at around 10am on Monday in their attempt to push the police to act on the incident in which a taxi driver has been missing for a month now.
Patty Magubira, a journalist working in the Arusha bureau of The Citizen, a Nation Media Group newspaper in Tanzania, was among those stranded and said the angry residents set fire on the highway and blocked traffic entering Tanzania from Kenya and vice versa.
"We are going to block this road until police tell us the whereabouts of our fellow taxi driver, who was hijacked about a month ago," Mr Magubira quoted one of the protesters shouting.
Mr Magubira, who was travelling to Mombasa, explained that hundreds of tourists and local travellers were stranded on either sides of the Namanga border point.
