Campaigns no licence to break road traffic rules

Youth dangerously hang on a vehicle along Outer Ring Road in Nairobi as Deputy President William Ruto's convoy heads to Jacaranda Grounds in Embakasi East on January 16, 2022.  [Denish ochieng, Standard]

There has been a string of road accidents, some of them fatal, during the ongoing election campaign season.

For example, several people were injured last week after an overloaded campaign vehicle, with some ecstatic young men hanging outside it, overturned in Kisii County. The vehicle reportedly toppled over after the driver tried to negotiate a bend at high speed.