Association urges NTSA to restore online portal

Kenya Driving Schools Association has asked the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) to open the online portal for users to access it and address their queries.  

Speaking to the media Samuel Kamau who is the National Chair Kenya Driving Schools Association blamed NTSA for all the mess in bodaboda sector.

According to Kamau, NTSA closed its portal, barring any acquisition of Driving Licenses, from February 15, 2022.

He claimed NTSA closed the portal and suspended seven major services including licensing of driving schools, drivers and instructors, after losing a court case on January 27.

The court stopped the implementation of the Traffic Rules of 2020 and ordered the rules considered at Parliament.

“Those operators are being lied to because they can only obtain licenses through the closed portal,” he said.

Kamau said their students are stranded as the system cannot access tests. “NTSA has been very deviant even after being asked by the parliamentary select committee to open up the portal. We take this matter as payback since we took them to court to challenge the new rule, said Kamau”.

In a letter dated March 17 signed by Jeremiah Ndobi, the Clerk of the National Assembly, a committee of parliament ordered NTSA to reopen the portal.

Dido Guyato, the Deputy Director of communications said the NTSA Director General George Njau will address the concerns this week.