The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has announced a major shake-up of top management to streamline operations and dismantle corruption cartels.
The transport agency also announced staff reorganisation in which several top officers have been pushed out vacant and 227 employees reshuffled.
NTSA chairman Jackson Waweru said in a statement the agency, now under a new board, will advertise key management positions aimed at improving its capacity to offer services to Keyans.
The shake-up comes in the wake of double-registration of cars, which has been used to sanitise stolen vehicles or those that get into the country illegally. Also, there have been concerns about NTSA operations, where insiders have created cartels to frustrate public access to essential services like PSV car inspections and driving licences unless they part with bribes.
Inspection of PSV vehicles has been a lucrative for the cartels, which had even jammed the NTSA online services to force vehicle owners to go through their system. Most targeted for extortion are new vehicles joining ride-hailing companies such as Uber, Bolt (formerly Taxify) and Little Cab, among others, whose owners were forced to bribe to get favourable report. This is the same way unroadworthy PSV vehicles get their way to the roads.
The positions to be filled are: Director Registration and Licensing, Director Road Safety, Deputy supply Chain, Deputy Director Motor vehicle Inspection, Manager Supply Chain and Manager ICT.