Government is keen on reducing road accidents, CS Murkomen
Roads and Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, has implored Kenyans to be patient as the Ministry of Transport works to curb the rising number of road accidents. Murkomen, who said that he was especially concerned by the situation of transporting students stated that the Ministry will gazette new guidelines on how school transport should be managed given the recent accidents involving students from Chavakali High school, Kabsabet boys and Kenyatta University. “We are going to employ technology to monitor how vehicles are managed starting with school buses which will be fitted with vehicular telematics,” he said. The CS noted with concern that the number of Kenyans losing lives through road accidents is rising every year warning that those numbers should be taken seriously. He however noted that there is still a challenge of reducing road carnage.
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