{"id":15637,"date":"2024-03-20T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/moa-faults-govt-on-traffic-crackdown-following-increased-accidents\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:03:07","slug":"moa-faults-govt-on-traffic-crackdown-following-increased-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/moa-faults-govt-on-traffic-crackdown-following-increased-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"MOA faults govt on traffic crackdown following increased accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 19 \u2013 The Matatu Owners Association has faulted the government for initiating a countrywide traffic crackdown following increased accidents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a press conference Wednesday, the association\u2019s chairman Albert Karakacha stated that the recent incidents involved school buses and lorries, not matatus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to allow NTSA on our roads and this thing of NTSA dealing with individuals, we want them to stop immediately so that we can deal with the saccos,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that the crackdown will promote corruption, and pointed out that they are open for dialogue to discuss sustainable solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask the government to engage in joint discussions with us to develop comprehensive and long-term solutions,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>He has urged Transport Cabinet Secretary to regulate NTSA to ensure the industry runs smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the accidents in the matatu sector are not alarming compared to lories and school transport,\u201d Karakacha underscored.<\/p>\n<p>He further lauded National Youth Service trainees for being good drivers due to the length of their training and expressed the association\u2019s interest in having 80 percent of drivers being from NYS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge the president to mention that 80 % of drivers are supposed to come from NYS, we are ready to collaborate with the government to see that it is happening.\u201d Karakacha mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>He prompted the police and base commanders to make sure they enforce law and order on the roads in order to achieve sanity on the roads.<\/p>\n<p>According to the association, they have been holding clinics for matatu drivers and members whereby NTSA and traffic police get to check matatus roadworthiness as well as educating them on various measures for road safety which acts as a measure to reduce road accidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are doing clinics in the whole country, we are working very closely with traffic and NTSA, WE HAD CLINICS IN Meru, Nyeri, Makongeni, Nyayo stadium and another one will be held tomorrow in lower Kabete police station,\u201d he stated. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, that has been an increase in road accidents with the most recent involving a Kenyatta University bus along the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway that took away lives of eleven students from the school of Public Health with forty-two others nursing injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Just a day before this unfortunate occurrence, another accident occurred in Bomet following a collision between a public service vehicle and a tractor.<\/p>\n<p>Five people died while 18 others sustained injuries in this incident.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 19 \u2013 The Matatu Owners Association has faulted the government for initiating a countrywide traffic crackdown following increased accidents. Speaking during a press conference Wednesday, the association\u2019s chairman Albert Karakacha stated that the recent incidents involved school buses and lorries, not matatus. \u201cWe are not going to allow NTSA on our roads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}