NTSA suspends Green Line Bus Company license over violations and the loss of 10 lives in Sunday crash

The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has suspended the license of Green Line Bus Company following the demise of 10 people in an accident involving the company’s vehicle.

The decision to pull the company’s vehicles out of the local road was also necessitated by continued traffic violations and the operator’s level of compliance with the Public Service Vehicles Regulations, 2014.

NTSA noted it had suspended the operator’s licence in line with Section 34 of the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) Act. “The suspension shall be lifted upon the operator’s full compliance with the Public Service Vehicles Regulations, 2014,” NTSA said.

Green Line Bus Company was directed to take all its vehicles to NTSA’s motor vehicle inspection centres for compliance inspection. The operator will further have to acquire Road Service Licences (RSL) for all its vehicles and Public Service Vehicles (PSV) badges for all its drivers and conductors. In addition, the company is expected to put in come up a fleet management system with all the vehicles with traceable and tractable RSL.

It is also required to conduct road safety training for all its drivers, conductors, owners and company officials. The traffic department has been instructed to impound any Green Line Bus Company vehicle that would be found operating in disregard of the suspension.

As was earlier reported by Daily Active, a vehicle belonging to Green Line Bus Company was involved in a road crash that claimed at least 10 lives, moments after a Green Line bus collided with a lorry on Nakuru-Eldoret highway at around 1 am on Sunday, February 17, at Kwa Harun, Kamara.

Confirming the incident, Kamara location Chief Joseph Korir said eight people died on the spot. Two others later succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment.

Here’s a tweet from the NTSA following the suspension :

NTSA Suspends Green Line Bus Company. pic.twitter.com/jpKUBkarz6

— NTSA KENYA (@ntsa_kenya) February 20, 2019

However the public was not satisfied with this and wanted more as evident in a tweet below:

Kindly ntsa, suspending the green line licence is not important where lives have been lost. Tell us how many hours driver rested before starting the bus, was the speed governor working, was the bus roadworthy? Stop the blame game @karugawanjuguna @jeffoyowo @FredMatiangi

— jeff (@gchavasu) February 20, 2019

Green Line bus company licence has been suspended by the govermnent.
What is better? Reacting ftr accidents or acting to prevent them?— Motorist Association (@motoristsoffice) February 20, 2019

Nonsense! Why hasn't the license of the green line bus company driver not revoked?

— Mubarak A (@Master_M_555) February 19, 2019