Tight dragnet for errant road users

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Capital Motors

Nairobi, Dec 14 – Assistant Minister for Roads Lee Kinyanjui has called on all road users to exercise care during this festive season to avoid road accidents.

Kinyanjui said that the role of the police is to enforce the law but that the primary responsibility to stop accidents lay on road users.

Kinyanjui, who spoke during the launch of a road safety campaign by the Kenya Urban Roads Authority and the Kenya traffic police, said the government had already acquired speed guns to ensure compliance with speed limits.

“Police will always be there to help us but everybody has a responsibility for his own life. We will allocate to major highways but as yet we do not have the capacity for every highway.”

“Drivers should take care and passengers should also speak out before an accident occurs,” he added.

Deputy Traffic Commandant Samuel Kimaru said that the police would be vigilant to ensure compliance with traffic rules.

He said that 3,092 people had died through road accidents as at the December 13, 2011, and the majority of those are pedestrians at 1466. During the same period 8,206 people were seriously injured.

Kimaru warned that police would step up measures to check on speeding, over loading and drink driving.

“Even the passenger who will be found to have boarded vehicles as excess passengers will be charged alongside the drivers of the vehicles, so they should take heed,” he said, reiterating that the use of breathalyzers was gazetted and would be used to test drunk drivers.

Of the deaths recorded as at December 13, 768 are passengers, 265 are drivers, 286 are motorcyclists, 141 motorcycle passengers and 141 were bicycle riders.

Kimaru urged the public to report to the police any incidences or information of vehicles being driven badly on hotline numbers 0208074602 or 0202603814

The road safety campaign will continue till December 28.

By LORDRICK MAYABI





  • Jumasbiel

    …Utter stupidity by the author..

  • Swalleh Abdikarim

    N i salute ya Mr. Kuria 4 dat. Ts tym Kenyans got to open their eyes n c wat a chameleon dis boy is.

  • Kwesi Pratt

    Mr. Kuria first of all, I must correct you abit rather late in the day. PM Raila has never fought for Kenyans, but has conned the gullible to believe so. Am sure you do know that his puported fight for us started with a failed tribal coup. He had apparently financed luo junior airforce officers to stage it on his behalf. That surely cant be referred as “fight for us” at all.
    Am sure you also remember that when Kenyans were fighting for multipartyism, the character was still in jail. But he never hesitated to claim ownership of same, indeed backing that with that failed tribal coup! Clearly apart from the village inspired coup attempt, his hand cant be found anywhere at all in clamour for multiparty. And dont forget his late father was in the frontline in the fight for same. In politics, there is no way you can find a son standing toe in toe with his father.
    You must have also realize that the character not only faked election theft, but also faked stories about seemingly innocent bystanders in order to have them carted away to ICC. Those wicked attempts to find way to state house through hook and crook can never ever yield fruits. With or without brothers Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenyans are not going to elect a seemingly drunken confused person whose only claim to leadership is only pugnacious vicious lies, corruption, malicious propaganda and character assassination. We have plenty of able leaders in the absence of the two. Kenyans remember with utter consternation when the PM, in a BBC Hardtalk program, congratulated murderous gangs that killed women and children in Eldoret church. Apparently, a character aspiring to be a leader of a God-fearing nation had no qualms in having people murdered in God’s house! And dont ever forget in the entire violence, the purported good PM never ever asked his supporters, even pretentiously, to stop the killings. Perhaps, the much hyped fake reform agenda is ostensibly, murderous designs? Need I add that, bad things never produce good results?
    As Kenyans approach 2013 presidential elections, they hold dear the fact that this mister PM has miserably failed translate his fake reform songs in to reality. They also know that he has only used divisive antics, marked by drunken confusion, to market himself. Remember, during referendum campaigns, he attacked religious leaders. He even introduced misplaced issues like reformers, nonreformers and even watermelons in the campaigns. Infact, thats why he had to be kept in reserve benches! Of course, Kenyans were only required to decide “when” the law was to be amended. Thats BEFORE or AFTER passage. Thats simply because no single person after reading the document was opposed to it at all. What we had agreed was that about 25% of it needed to be amended. But the guy, having lost bearings, came up with insults and name-calling to con us in believing that he was indeed, the man behind it all! His folks laden with tribal loyalty in the media were only too happy to present him as the crown prince behind the document. However, you need to ask if the fellow was not even in the know of what was at stake, how would he be the leader of what he never knew/understood?