The Nairobi Metropolitan Services continues to be criticized for lack of law and order in the City from residents and top honchos in Governor Mike Sonko’s administration.
Angry at the poor services from NMS is Charles Kerich – the Nairobi County Lands CEC.
“Nairobi is now full of hawkers, beggars, street families, and bodaboda, including in the CBD. Kiosks and roadside stalls are mushrooming in every corner,” Kerich lamented on his facebook.
He went on to complain that “Transfer of functions should not mean a breakdown of services. NMS may have taken over the Inspectorate responsible for enforcement but what is needed is collaboration and partnership to ensure no interruptions in service delivery,”
Kerich posted a video of a pedestrian being knocked down by two speeding Boda Bodas at a zebra crossing on Ngong road.
In the video taken on 20th September 2020 at 6.08 pm, all the cars had stopped at the Zebra crossing for pedestrians to cross but the riders didn’t stop and one ran over the man who had been hit by another bike.
A good Samaritan is seen helping the man as the lights turned green for motorists to drive on.
In 2015, then Governor Evans Kidro banned Boda Boda’s from the CBD because of flouting traffic rules.
Sonko did the same in 2018.
However, after meeting their representatives, the County Government released their bikes which had been confiscated and they all agreed that they will not access the CBD and will not flout traffic rules.
But the riders have continued to flout the rules, riding on walkways and on the wrong side, speeding and not observing traffic lights.
Several residents have been killed by the speeding riders.
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