As the Week of road safety approaches its homestretch, Nyanza Region Road Safety Coordinator, Adan Adow has asked schools to develop road safety sensitization programs to sensitize more school children as they are the most vulnerable on roads usage.
“I call upon schools to develop internal structures that suits their academic calendar to incorporate routine road safety sensitization programs among their pupils.” He said.
The manager said the National Transport Authority (NTSA) partnered with Kisii County Government to champion the serious safety campaigns in the county in conformity to the United Nations Global Annual road safety campaigns.
Saying that the United Nation’s theme for road safety campaigns in this year is safety for walking streets and cycling, the Manager revealed that the country lost 4748 people through toad accident and underscored need to work tirelessly to curb the menace.
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He was accompanied by Kisii Central Deputy County Commissioner Joseph Mwangi and Kisii County Executive Committee Member (CECM) Dr Margaret Obaga among other leaders.
Dr. Obaga appealed to teachers and parents to teach their children on how to use roads safely by putting more emphasis on how to cross streets, especially in towns and cities where there is busy traffics made up of speeding cars and motorbikes.
“Remind our children of the slogan “Look left- right, left again and cross only when there is no vehicle in motion,” she said.
She added that during the road safety sensitization week, her officers will move from one school to another to share with teachers and learners on urgent need of joining hands towards the fight of the ever increasing road carnage on highways.
She told teachers to encourage their learners to compose poems and songs discouraging reckless use of roads by both motorists and pedestrians, as it is the best vehicle of passing message to a bigger population.
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“Songs are not there for mere entertainment but as main medium of communication and I call upon school choir masters and other artists to use them to teach and caution the public against road accidents,” said Obaga.
She also said that her office will place zebra crossing on all streets of Kisii town to guide pedestrians as they cross the streets for their safety.
Kisii Central Deputy County Country Commissioner blamed drivers and their conductors who establish illegal matatu stages within the town and asked them to stop the practice, which he claimed leads to traffic jam.
“I ask those setting unlawful bus stages in town to stop it forthwith before we go for them,” he cautioned.
Kisii County Matatu operators Chairman Samson Okong’o, appealed to matatu drivers and bodaboda operators to adhere to traffic rules and regulation for harmony and safety in the Matatu transport industry.
By Enock Okong’o.
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