00:00 We are going to Gazette soon school transport regulations that is going to determine how
00:07 students and school transport is going to be managed. We would want an accountability
00:14 from our schools in terms of how they manage the drivers and how they manage the vehicles
00:19 and how they maintain. When there was an accident last time at Londiani I announced that we
00:27 are going to apply technology by making sure that all our vehicles, particularly starting
00:33 with school vehicles, school buses, we are going to fit them with vehicular telematics.
00:40 When I made that announcement I constituted a team and the team is in the final stage
00:45 of finalizing the standards including Kenya People's Standards to announce the right telematics
00:53 that are going to be installed in our vehicles. We know that trucks used to cause accidents
00:59 a lot in Kenya but the truck companies that became responsible, transporters who became
01:05 responsible and installed vehicular telematics complete with dash cameras are able to monitor
01:12 their drivers from if it is Mombasa all the way to Malaba, all the way to Kampala. They
01:20 are able to see the driver on a screen, on a computer and they are able also to see if
01:27 the driver is about to doze. They are able to call and tell them, "Park the car there,
01:32 we don't want you to continue driving." When we finish these standards I will be giving
01:37 directions together with the CS education on how all the schools will be required mandatorily
01:44 to install vehicular telematics in the school buses. We are working with Safaricom and I
01:51 want to thank Safaricom here, they are helping us in that area. We will hope that the technology
01:58 we are going to produce will be cheaper so that it is affordable for our schools. And
02:04 therefore Madam Principal you will have somebody, Chief Principal, when the bus is out of the
02:10 school and is taking your students you will have another person in the control room checking
02:14 how the driver is driving, how he is overtaking, what is happening inside the bus, whether
02:19 there is a mischief and the students will be protected to be safe.
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