Road safety: Bamburi Cement Company to ensure contracted trucks are not involved in preventable disasters

A Bamburi contracted truck on the road

Kenya’s innumerous tragic road accidents that culminated in 58 Home Boyz bus accident deaths recently could be resolved if SACCOs and companies that operate the buses and matatus  adopted a safety regime used by Bamburi Cement Company to ensure contracted trucks are not involved in preventable disasters.

Under the regime that has been in force since 2012, the ill-fated bus would not have been on the road with faulty breaks that the driver had complained about to the owners to no avail. The bus owners (transporters) would have been declared unfit and ineligible to be transporters.