NTSA to Enforce the National Road Safety Action Plan 2024-2028
By Fred Maingi.
In a bid to address the devastating toll of road accidents in Kenya, National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) Director General George Njao says time is rife to start enforcing the National Road Safety Action Plan 2024-2028 launched by the president in April.
Addressing the National Helmet Wearing Coalition board member’s meeting at the NTSA headquarters in Nairobi, Njao, commended the efforts made by the coalition to enhance the awareness of motorcycle riders and passengers’ safety.
“In the next few weeks, I will be meeting all the stake holders in order to plan on how this will be implemented, we have lost too many lives on our roads and enough is enough,” he said. “we are done with boardroom meetings it’s now time to act”
With the third face of the motorcycle safety campaign underway, the one and half year project funded by FIA and Transaid starts this month through December 2025.
Transaid programs support Manager Jason Finch said, under the Preference of motorcycle helmet wearing, there is a big push to secure support necessary to install a helmet testing lab in Kenya which is significant demand.
He further added “It’s important now that Kenya has a national Road Safety Action Plan, the first one of its kind in Africa and with the right stakeholders, the testing lab will be a good place to begin.”
The director General has advocated for all motor cycle riders to be registered with a Sacco so that the organization can be able to easily reach them and work for a common goal.
Transaid Kenya boss Grace Wahome says the response from motorcycle riders in Nairobi has been positive prompting them to go and start similar campaigns in other parts of the country.
“Our main goal is to enhance riders’ safety by wearing quality helmets, we have approached many saccos in Nairobi which have embraced our agenda in distributing quality helmets,” she said.
The National Helmet wearing coalition was started in 2021 by former president Uhuru Kennyatta and the then Federation International de Automobile FIA president Jean Todt to enhance motorcycle helmet wearing in the country.
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