Over the recent past, there has been an increase in the number of accidents recorded on our roads daily. 58 lives were on Wednesday October 10, 2018 lost in a grisly road accident at Fort Ternan in Kericho involving a western bound bus.
Efforts to restore sanity on our Kenyan roads have been suggesting different solutions, and guess what? Michuki rules came back on the roads.
Any vehicles operating on the roads and don’t adhere to the rules, it has to dawn on them!
Have you ever imagined that a sacco with more than 100 vehicles operating on the road can be deregisterd? On Tuesday October 31, 2018, transport regulator NTSA revoked licences for seven matatu saccos citing violation of laws guiding their operations.
De-registration of PSV Operator Licenses. pic.twitter.com/CvsFeEj1kW
— NTSA KENYA (@ntsa_kenya) October 31, 2018
Molo Shuttle Sacco that operates the Nairobi, Nakuru, Olenguruone, and Kisii route was among the deregistered saccos.
NTSA, in a notice published on Tuesday, also named Nairobi Kiruline Services.
The sacco has vehicles plying Nairobi, Murang’a, Othaya, Nyeri, and Nyahururu routes.
Gakango, which plies the Nyeri, Gataragwa, Ngobit routes is also among the seven.
The agency led by Francis Meja also named New Lowland and Newlot saccos.
New Lowland operates on the Nakuru, Marigat and Kabarnet route while Newlot plies Nairobi, Machakos, Makueni, Kitui, Mutumo, Kibwezi, Ikutha, Voi, and Mombasa.
NTSA has also banned Hannover Commercial Enterprise, which operates the Kikuyu, Waiyaki Way, Westlands, Tom Mboya, Thika Road, and Mwiki routes.
Jogoo Road’s Peja Travellers Limited was also notified of the deregisteration which was effective September 13.
Meja’s team invoked Section 5(1) of the NTSA Regulations, 2014, as grounds for the delisting of the said operators.
The NTSA revokes licenses for defective and unroadworthy vehicles, largely blamed for increased cases of accidents in the country but do you agree with them that Molo Sacco had unroadworthy vehicles?