It is important for Kenyans to know these roads belong to us and they are the backbone of the economy. Let’s take care of them. Imagine if someone is visiting you and tells you, ‘your roads are like a road to hell’, you would not feel happy. So use the roads properly.Kenyans continue to die on our roads. When roads are improved the speeds increase… that leads to have accidents.
KENYA’S NEW TRAFFIC RULES – AND CORRUPTION
The new traffic rules do seem to have an effect on the behaviour of matatu drivers and some of private drivers in Nairobi but they have also given corrupt police officers more scope for garnering bribes. The number of dangerously overloaded lorries and PSV vehicles on the roads appear not to have diminished despite numerous police check points.
I posed the disturbing proposition that the new traffic rules are ‘breeding more criminality’, not ‘acting as a deterrent and a mode of social change’.
The police are using the new traffic laws to extort large bribes – unashamedly and unabashedly, with no agency capable of curbing the corruption for the giver and the taker of bribes!
Kenyans, all of us, have to take responsibility.
