EDITORIAL: Culture of breaking traffic rules must stop

This year alone slightly more than 3,000 Kenyans have died in road accidents.

According to the National Transport and Safety Authority data, more than 10,000 are nursing injuries.

Accidents send many passengers and motorists to early graves and maim many more and even with such grim statistics, the government has not been keen to put in place serious measure to prevent the preventable deaths.

It has always been empty talk of how the regime wants the accidents curbed without dedicating a budget and a campaign on road safety or empowering the relevant authorities to take serious action against reckless bus and matatu drivers as well as motorists.

It is for this reason that reports that Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja intends to install cameras along key roads is broadly welcome. 

The governor says that a pilot of the plan along major junctions in the city has shown that violation of traffic offences is untapped source of revenue in the form of fines that can fund the county.

The culture of breaking traffic rules must stop.

The national government should borrow a leaf from the governor’s move and install cameras on major highways to nab traffic offenders as a deterrent measure.

Quote of the Day: “I’m not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.”

Sojourner Truth

The American abolitionist was born on November 18, 1797