Has “Michuki Rules” fail?

Do you think the police have failed to enforce ‘Michuki Rules’?

Even after the return of the hyped “Michuki Rules” was to curb road accidents in Kenya but its implementation has become so lax and accidents so rampant that the country is hitting the reset button.

Yesterday three people lost their life,several injured in a grisly road accident along Nakuru Eldoret highway.

The accident happened when the driver of the 14 seater matatu lost control of the vehicle, ramming into the lorry that was parked by the road.

Eldoret East OCPD Richard Omanga confirmed the incident, adding that the driver of the vehicle is among those injured.

The casualties were rushed to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret.

The bodies of the deceased were moved to the hospital’s morgue with police launching investigations to establish the cause of the accident.

It is not clear how many people were in the matatu that was heading to Eldoret from Nairobi.

The accident comes in the wake of the return of the Michuki Rules .

The laws were introduced by the no-nonsense Transport minister John Michuki, hence the moniker ‘Michuki Rules’. Enforcement was both brutal and reprieving, bringing order to the public transport sector for the first time in Kenya’s history.

The radical regulations drastically reduced road accidents by 74 per cent nationally. Fatal road crashes involving urban public service vehicles fell by a whopping 94 per cent in just three months.

Past road accident trends reveal that most deaths and accidents occur during the festive season as PSV operators rush to cash in on the demand.

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