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Most boda boda riders interviewed agreed that they sleep around with school girls, married women, house girls and bar maids, but only blame women for tempting them into breaking commandments especially during the sex boom following school holidays.
Allan, a boda boda rider in Kakamega says she was lured by a primary school teacher into a relationship. "Initially, she would instruct me to give the stuff to her neighbour. Later, she asked if l can be trusted, l agreed and she started giving me keys to deliver her vegetable in her house. Finally we ended in a relationship," he says.
Dr Joseph Muleka, a Sociologist and Literature lecture at the University of Nairobi says boda boda riders are targets for women because they are everywhere and the close existence between riders and their passengers, if they are women, triggers some psychological consequences.
"Boda riders' availability makes them vulnerable and reachable for any woman," he said. And that is how married women with shaky relationships end up with riders "who provide these women with sense of security and belonging in exchange for relationships."
Dr Muleka warns relationships between school girls and riders start when they meeting become often. Boda riders will give them money and lifts in exchange for sex as some girls are always excited he explains adding that strict parents should know that "A human being is a social being, and any restrictions will make them rebellious."
