The court stopping NTSA’s smart driving licence and automated fines system should make us ask a bigger question…
Is Kenya really chasing road safety, or are we rushing to automate punishment?
You cannot copy Germany’s cameras and forget Germany’s engineering.
You cannot copy developed countries’ fines and ignore the decades they spent building safer roads, pedestrian systems, markings, intelligent highways and driver culture.
Even today, pedestrians on Thika Road and our bypasses still gamble with death crossing highways because basic footbridges and safe crossing points are missing.
But somehow, the fastest infrastructure we can complete is the one that sends a fine to your phone.
A camera does not save the pedestrian who has nowhere safe to cross.
A smart licence does not fix a poorly designed road.
A digital fine does not replace investment in safety.
Kenyans are not against technology. Kenyans are not against discipline.
But technology without fairness feels like taxation with a different name.
Countries we admire built the foundation first — then automated enforcement.
We seem to be automating enforcement while still struggling with the foundation.
Road safety should start by protecting lives…
Not perfecting how to collect money from them.
As a parent you shouldn't be telling your kids that you sacrificed your life for them, It’s hurtful and manipulative, and it’s not true. You chose to have your kids and nobody forced you to have them. Taking care of them is your responsibility.
I have no interest in being around people who assign malicious intent to every mistake. If grace is reserved for no one, not even the people in your life, I can only imagine how harshly you judge strangers
I remember once tweeting that I would never have a child outside of wedlock— people were dragging me and saying never say never.
Whole time I meant I would abort. ✋🏽
I have so many funny stories about my mother. I remember when she got appointed acting Governor of the CBK, they had this Range Rover assigned to her. She got so pissed off about it, she hardly used it. She liked her Peugeot 504 which used to jerk from a sensitive clutch.
Mercy is when you can't even explain how you're surviving, but you are. You don't have it all figured out, but each day, God sends help right when you need it. Hallelujah.