Uhuru Orders NTSA Officials Off the Roads

President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered all NTSA officers to be withdrawn from Kenyan roads following a public outcry concerning the body.

The President said that only traffic police officers will be mandated with the duty of enforcing road safety.

“Today, I want to announce that as Government we have decided that all NTSA officers should now leave the work of managing traffic on our roads to traffic police to ensure order in the management of traffic,” President Kenyatta said.

The move by the Head of State comes days after Kenyans both online and offline called for the disbandment of NTSA following increased road accidents.

On 31^st of December, hours before Kenyans said goodbye to 2017, a total of 38 people perished at Migaa along Nakuru – Eldoret highway with a total number of those who lost their lives in December alone standing at more than 340.

President Kenyatta – who was accompanied by Deputy President William Ruto – was speaking Tuesday at Maili Tatu in Meru County at the funeral service of three bishops of the African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa (AIPCA).

The three bishops – Philip Kubai, chairman of the AIPCA B Synod from Ntonyiri Diocese, Moses Ntoeruri of Igembe Diocese and Bishop Stanley Karuru from Igembe Central Diocese – died on December 29 in a road accident at Wamumu in Mwea, Kirinyaga County.