Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen on Thursday, April 18, directed all police officers to ensure traffic rules are followed....CONTINUE READING
This was hours after President William Ruto ordered him to bring down the number of accidents on Kenyan roads or his job would be in jeopardy.
“Following the directives issued by the President, all police officers are under instructions to enforce the law without considering their police departments,” Murkomen ordered.
Murkomen made the directive after he was irked by a Bodaboda rider carrying four passengers in an undisclosed location.
The Transport CS stated that he would do all possible to ensure that sanity was brought back to Kenyan roads and the subsequent drop in accident numbers.
Speaking at Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC)during the official launch of the National Road Safety Action Plan by NTSA, Ruto had warned Murkomen that he would not tolerate the rising number of accidents.
The Head of State had wondered why the number of accidents kept rising every year when the template on how to reduce road fatalities was accessible to everyone.
“You better come and report to us that the numbers are coming down otherwise you will be in a lot of trouble,” Murkomen was ordered by President Ruto.
In the new directive by CS Murkomen, the Transport Ministry is forging a collaboration with the National Police Service under Inspector General Japhet Koome to execute the presidential order.
According to the CS, Bodaboda riders are one of the highest causes of accidents in the country.
” 38 per cent of people we lose are pedestrians, 32 per cent are Bodaboda Riders and 26 per cent are lost through public-private vehicle accidents,” Murkomen had commented during the NTSA launch.
He vowed that his Ministry would come up with a plan to crackdown on the Boda boda sector..<<CONTINUE READING>>
