Dozens of National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) personnel who had been working at various driving schools have been deployed to various roads for major operations.
It is the reason motorists have seen increased operations on the roads targeting rogue drivers.
The crackdown will, among others, target drivers who have installed strobe or flashing lights, those with foreign number plates without motor vehicle foreign permits and illegal public service vehicles, which include illegal public service vehicles that operate at night.
Also targeted are speeding vehicles that carry miraa, unlicensed tuk-tuks and those that ferry sugar canes in sugar-growing regions.
Vehicles operating at night, especially those carrying passengers without licenses and those breaking regional specifications, will be targeted.
Government spokesperson Cyrus Oguna said there has been a rise in the number of crashes on the roads, and that many lives had been lost.
“There are families without a breadwinner, orphaned children because of highway crashes. The emotional and financial cost of this is immense, particularly when it is considered that a life lost can never be recovered. Losing a life of one Kenyan is a life too many,” said Oguna.
The operation also targets transport operators without a valid road service license, uniform, driver’s license, reflective jacket and PSV badge.
Other violations include operating without a helmet, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, carrying excess pillion passengers, worn-out tires, contravening insurance and defective motor vehicles.
Drivers who exceed the speed limit will also be charged as well as those operating without an inspection sticker and a speed governor.
Oguna said they also target drivers of unroadworthy motor vehicles, those who cause obstruction, drive recklessly and lack lane indiscipline.
So far, over 2,000 motor vehicles have been impounded in the country in the ongoing National Rapid Results Initiative (RRI) crackdown.
NTSA suspended key services after a court ruling. The personnel who were working in these areas have been sent to the roads for operations.
They included licensing of driving schools, renewal of driving school licenses and the licensing of driving school instructors.
Other services suspended are the renewal of driving school Instructor's licenses, Provisional Driving License (PDL) application for driver trainees, test booking for driving school instructors and driver trainees and the testing of driving school instructors and driver trainees.
This was after a court verdict that compelled them to send the new traffic rules to both the National Assembly and the Senate.
