The Ministry of Transport now claims to be in the advanced stages of implementing road safety measures to combat the country's high rate of tragic road accidents.
Kipchumba Murkomen, Transport Cabinet Secretary, says that if the directives issued in early April are fully implemented, they will save lives nationwide.
The latest tragic road accident in Nairobi's Karen area has refocused attention on the knee-jerk measures taken by successive governments to address the road carnage, which continues to rob the country of vibrant lives and maims thousands each year.
"We can get the numbers of deaths from such accidents, but what we don't usually get is the numbers of people who die by getting hit by motorists on the roads," Murkomen said.
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Just last month, the Ministry of Transport issued another set of measures, which the CS stated would be implemented as soon as possible to reduce road accidents across the country.
According to the ministry, all institutions and companies were given two weeks to present vehicles for compliance checks, particularly for speed limiters. The same was required of all PSVs and commercial vehicles, but this category was given thirty days to comply or risk revoking their NTSA-issued licenses.
The National Police Service and the NTSA were also required to conduct random vehicle checks on the road at night.
"We have tried in the ministry, we are privatising law enforcement by using cameras and we are in the advanced process of procuring cameras," he said.
Murkomen says the ministry, in collaboration with the national police and the NTSA, is now more focused on ensuring that road safety measures are strictly followed.
"We are trying to do car inspection, we are privatising car inspection, we have returned NTSA on the roads responsibility of drivers," the CS added.
Beyond enforcing the measures, the ministry is urging individual motorists to exercise caution and care for their own and their passengers' safety, as well as to contribute to reducing road carnage.
