Murkomen Breaks Silence After Uproar on Rise in Road Carnage

Murkomen Breaks Silence After Uproar on Rise in Road Carnage

Murkomen Breaks Silence After Uproar on Rise in Road Carnage: Speaking in Narok on Sunday, Roads CS Kipchumba Murkomen argued that accidents and fatalities had been there since independence.

The cabinet secretary cited that when late President Mwai Kibaki took over in 2004, annual fatalities from accidents averaged 3,000, then rose to 4,650 in 2022.

He stated,” I am distraught by road accidents and we thank Michuki for bringing order on the road including safety belts. What we have not been able to stop are road accidents.”

“When Mwai Kibaki took over the reins, we were loosing 3,000 people in 2004. In 2009, we lost 4,600. The figure dropped slightly but spiked. In 2022, we lost 4,650 people. Last year, the figure dropped to 4,300. Right now, we have lost 1,213 in 3 months. In the same period, we lost 1,146,” he added.

The CS stood his grounds arguing that road carnage had affected all regimes, not only Kenya kwanza.

The CS further explained that inorder to restore sanity in roads, Motorists must adhere to rules otherwise, put up measures will be in vain.

He stated,” Let me tell Kenyans because many people are speaking as though a new wave of accidents has just happened, it is not true. We have been losing people annually Over 4400 in the last five years. The worst year was 2022. What does that say? We have not placed enough measures to deal with accidents since independence,”

“From 2004, we have been losing an average of 3,800 people every year. If you do the maths, it shows that we have lost an average of 100,000 people in 20 years because of road accidents. Someone cannot just wake up one day and tell the CS to end road carnage, this is a national catastrophe. It is a problem that calls for an all public approach to sort out road accident cases,” he added.

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