NTSA Has Launched An Investigation Into The Issuance Of Fake Driver's Licenses

The 'Kenya's Killer Road' investigation uncovered how certain driving schools cooperated with authority officers to issue licenses to uncertified drivers and how car owners acquired inspection certifications while having unsafe vehicles.

The Authority, through Vehicle Inspection Director Gerald Wangai, said in a statement on Tuesday that it was aware of the report and that inquiries into the situation were continuing.

"At the NTSA, we have a department led by a DCI, which we have recently taken over, and we are going to investigate, and whoever is found culpable, we are going to take serious measures, which includes a notice minimum dismissal," Wangai stated.

He continued, “We'll go down that path if the question becomes criminal."

Wangai went on to say that the authority was committed to making inspection methods more efficient and tamper-proof by automating them.

NTSA has also indicated that it will re-validate following a recent exposé by the British Broadcasting Corporation, the National Transport and Safety driving schools to guarantee conformity with the authority's status standards.

Despite skipping the three-week driving school program, which costs over Ksh.15,000, reporters posing as actual clients are shown acquiring authentic licenses in the stated investigative piece.

On another occasion, they were successful in getting a road-worthy 14-seater matatu to pass inspection for a cost of Ksh 10,000.