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Tuesday, March 5, 2024 –Roads and Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has called out reporters of a local digital news channel over accident story.
Following a report by the local digital media that Murkomen had claimed that tamarked roads cause more accident than marram roads, CS Murkomen has come out to accuse the writer of distorting his information.
“Unfortunately, the standards of journalism in our country is so low that when blogs like Kenyans decide to maliciously twist a very serious message on road safety, we just stand and cheer. We depend on every Kenyan to help us combat road accidents which have multiplied with our upgraded roads. Listen carefully to my message in Nyeri and ignore blogs and bloggers who are playing cheap politics on a serious matter of life and death,” responded Murkomen through a tweet he made on X.
This is after the news outlet had reported that the CS was vouching for poor roads than highways; what seems to have not augured well with the roads CS.
“We have done our research and, statistically, those poor muddy roads where motorists get stuck, have not had a single accident in the last 50 years but once we tamark the road to become highway, we start counting casualties even before we complete the construction,” the leading digital media quoted the CS.
The CS who was speaking in Nyeri County had also urged all road users and, especially, those operating PSV cars, to consider human life first than money.
“I want to ask citizens that we use our roads well. Untamarked roads where people used to get stuck and travel slow because of mud and pushing cars.l did not record accidents. Such roads didn’t have any accidents but whenever we construct a road, even before we complete, we start counting accident one after another.
He announced that the recent research had further confirmed that, because villages were also getting tamarked, the accident rate in those areas had started going up too.
“Today our villages are also experiencing accidents unlike before when villages never had accidents,” he added.
Murkomen reported that, of late, the country had lost so many people on the road because of overloading as well as ignorance on the part of passengers.
