With the ongoing Michuki Rules crackdown, more arrests are expected as under cover detectives from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption (EACC) are set to join in during the festive period.
The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) director-general Francis Meja, said the sleuths will join the authority, traffic police and other State agencies in sustaining the crackdown especially as the festive season sets in.
“All the agencies involved will step up surveillance, especially on major roads and blackspots, to ensure motorists adhere to safety rules. We will not relent,” said Meja.
The goal is to curb road carnage, as the latest statistics by the NTSA show that at least 2,214 people have died in road accidents since January.
At least 11,231 Kenyans were arrested in the first week of the crackdown ,1,200 people were arrested in Nairobi; 5,600 in Central; 2,389 in Nyanza and 2,402 in Western as police enforced a government directive for strict compliance with traffic laws.
This year alone, more than 2,214 people have died in road accidents since January,just last month, 58 people were killed in a horrific accident involving a bus in western Kenya.
Rift Valley Traffic Commandant Zero Arome and Nakuru County Commissioner Joshua Nkanatha on Monday praised the NTSA for the move, saying EACC officials will ensure the exercise is clean and that all those arrested are taken to court.
