The government has been asked to launch investigations into a scandal involving the issuance of fake vehicle inspection stickers among other irregularities that have been blamed for the rise in road carnage.
Road Safety Association of Kenya officials raised the red flag over public service vehicles (PSVs) that get the stickers without being inspected, thus compromising road safety.
These, they charged, were some of the malpractices that should be investigated by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) following the recent suspension of the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) Director General George Njao who was sent on compulsory leave.
Led by Chairman David Kiarie, the group called on the new NTSA Board to embark on a forensic probe into the irregularities that they attributed to the rise in road fatalities.
At the same time, the officials among them Speed Governors and Road Safety Association Chairman Edward Gitonga, told Njao to keep off the Authority’s activities pending the probe.
Kiarie called for a resumption of the old Transport Integrated Management System (TIMS) claiming that the new one wasn’t serving its purpose.