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NAIROBI, Jan. 25-- Every day, Michael Arimi, a resident of Kayole on the east of Nairobi, Kenya, wakes up and heads to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport where he works at a cargo handling firm. His work involves sorting out various cargo according to size and destination before they are taken to the plane. After completing his day's work, Arimi usually returns home and from about 6 p.m., he starts his second job - offering motorbike taxi business. "I do the work to about 10 p.m. and retire to prepare for the following day," he said, adding on a good evening he earns up to 1,000 shillings (10 U.S. dollars). His is the life of many Kenyans in low income formal employment who the machines imported mainly from China have offered means to earn extra income as use of the taxis boom in the east African nation. While some of the workers are doing the motorbike taxi jobs, commonly known as boda boda, themselves, others have employed people. Among those doing motorbike taxi jobs as "side hustles" are teachers, police officers, civil servants, watchmen and drivers. "I am an electricity meter reader by day and motorbike taxi operator by night. You cannot survive on salary alone," said Titus Otiato, a resident of Ruai on the outskirts of Nairobi. Otiato noted that he earns some 300 dollars salary, money that cannot sustain him comfortably with his family of three. As many other workers in formal employment, he took a loan of 700 dollars from the company's savings society and bought a motorbike. | 
