PSV's to start carrying passengers full capacity starting today

Public Service Vehicles (PSVs) will resume to carrying full capacity passengers as from today, Monday, August 9.

The Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works announced the move after holding a meeting with road transport operators stakeholders on Covid-19.

Transport Chief Administrative Secretary Chris Obure said the ministry will sign a memorandum of understanding with operators that will ensure compliance of the protocols as they resume the full carrying capacity.

“We are in agreement that the Federation and Associations will immediately introduce self-regulation that will allow full capacity, and that any Sacco found violating the protocol will have its license revoked,” said Obure.

He said the ministry recognizes the loss that the operators are incurring in the current dispensation during this time of Covid-19 pandemic and the rising cases of the diseases, attributing the surge to non-compliant and non-enforcement off the commitment measures.

The CAS said in an attempt to strike the balance between maintaining a vibrant transport economy and to secure the safety of Kenyans, the ministry and the transport sector stakeholders have agreed on the need to have a self-regulating mechanism to ensure that operators comply with the protocols.

Obure said the meeting addressed concerns of laxity in implementing the existing containment measures, the protection of passengers’ against the spread of the rapidly mutating variants of the Covid-19 and its adverse effects on the PSV transport sector which has impacted negatively on the continued viability of the investments sector.

He said the transport industry reviewed the existing protocols in March this year and introduced new measures that were to allow for full capacity, he however, noted that the measures have not been implemented due to the high rate of infection.