NTSA carry out inpection of matatus during the road safety campaign awareness

The Star Kenya

The National Safety and Transport Authority carried out an inspection of matatus at Kasarani Police Station during the 3-month road safety campaign awareness in collaboration with the Matatu Owners Association.

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00:10 There is a critical responsibility to the owner of the vehicle when he's putting

00:22 his vehicle onto the road to make sure it is serviceable.

00:25 And to ensure that he has got a driver who's appropriately trained,

00:29 to get the documents together with the DSV operator, the Makanga.

00:32 Upon all the paperwork, we've gone around the country,

00:35 about the two weeks to go.

00:38 We want to support and see turning around this sector.

00:43 We also partnered with the National Police Service in regards to the activities

00:47 that we're undertaking, so that it is coordinated, it is sustainable.

00:51 And to ensure that we all come together as a community and

00:54 as a country, we're going to support.

00:56 This is not just for purposes of compliance, we started this way before.

01:01 This is I think the second month, and

01:03 we are going for another at least one month to the other parts of the country.

01:06 We started off with training across the country.

01:10 We started off with what was called office training,

01:15 and in regards to the operations that we were undertaking.

01:18 Now we are now doing the vehicle, so that's why we're here with the owners.

01:21 And then the next thing is we're working with the police to be able to then

01:24 support us on the matters related to enforcement.

01:27 This is an exercise that we are scaling up to go to other parts of the transport

01:31 sector, not just only the matatus.

01:33 We are working with the heavy commercial vehicles and also school transport.

01:37 You will be seeing an advertisement out for

01:39 new regulatory framework for school transport operators.

01:42 It will be in the papers on Tuesday, together with heavy commercial vehicle

01:45 regulations that we are expediting.

01:49 So that we can also regulate that sector with more detail to take care of the issues

01:53 that are emerging.

01:55 As you're aware, the last time there was done a regulatory review was in 2017.

01:59 Now we would like to update them to 2024.

02:01 So we'll be going for public participation across the country,

02:04 starting from the 15th of April on matters related to school transport and

02:08 heavy commercial vehicles, because that's an area of great concern,

02:11 based on the statistics and the accidents that we have seen.

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