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| Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo. |
In Summary
Several traffic police officers are under investigation for taking bribes from motorists, the police chief has said.
The corrupt officers have been blamed for compromising road safety, leading to an upsurge in road accidents.
Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo warned the said officers that if found guilty, they would be dismissed.
He also cautioned vehicle owners and passengers who broke the law that they would be dealt with.
An investigation in the Sunday Nation indicated that senior traffic police officers and their juniors pocket up to Sh300,000 a day as bribes from matatu owners so as to get away with breaking the law including speeding, overloading, and driving poorly maintained vehicles that are blamed for the rising number of tragic road accidents.
“Some officers are being investigated and if they are found guilty they have no option but to be dismissed from the National Police Service,” Mr Kimaiyo said in a statement on return from the annual meeting of the Eastern Africa Police Chiefs Coordination Organization in Mahe, the Seychelles.
The police chief said that effectiveness and civility of traffic law enforcement would be used to weed out police officers stuck in the corrupt past and retain those who embraced police reforms.
“My office will not hesitate to take serious contemplated action on officers who will be compromised in all road accidents where serious injuries are caused resulting into maim or death,” he said.
Mr Kimaiyo also warned action would be taken on passengers who board overloaded vehicles, saying, the law deemed them culpable in breaking traffic rules as well.
Mr Kimaiyo was speaking in the wake of a road accident on the Nairobi-Narok Road that claimed the lives of 41 passengers.
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