Some legislators are now calling for the disbandment of the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), accusing it of incompetence.
They accuse NTSA Director-General Francis Meja of dereliction of duty following the death of 38 people at Migaa in Nakuru County on Sunday.
Senate Majority Leader Moses Wetang’ula said the authority should go.
“NTSA must be disbanded,” Mr Wetangula wrote in a tweet while accusing the authority of sending panic within the transport industry.
“You can’t run a 24hr economy by curtailing workers’ travel. The world is on the move.”
His counterpart in the National Assembly, John Mbadi, also dismissed the night travel ban as a knee-jerk reaction that will not address the challenges witnessed on the Kenyan roads in the last few months.
“The ban is not a solution…it is more of an emotional outburst which worsens the situation,” Mr Mbadi told Nation, noting that what is needed is an honest enforcement agency that will implement the traffic rules according to the letter and spirit of the law.
“The laws exist, what is required is the will to enforce it. NTSA must ensure that drivers are not intoxicated and they must not be overworked through a heavy schedule.
“But this is not possible because what we have in Kenya is an enforcement institution system that has collapsed,” he said.
Mwingi Central MP Gideon Mulyungi said he will sponsor a Bill to repeal the NTSA Act, to disband the authority following high rate of crashes in the last one month in which nearly 350 people have lost their lives.
