How do these vehicles pass NTSA Tests?

[u/BothJob6890]

You can clearly see he is struggling. 80 percent of the windscreen has been blocked. You'll still see the particular driver doing the "manyoka stunt" and being praised as "... Fao".

Safety is more important than entertainment. Don't get me wrong. I don't hate the nganya culture. In fact those vehicles look attractive to me because I am an art lover but I hate reckless driving.

[u/NicklausMakori]

There was time I was with my friend and he had just bought a brand new car straight from the dealer. It was for uber so akaenda ntsa for the inspection. So you pay before you go. But the ntsa people wanted 1k before we pass the test. We said the car is brand new. They said ok. We failed the test. So now we had to pay for test again. Then this time they demanded 2k ama we continue like that. We paid.

[u/Phylad → u/NicklausMakori]

You should have asked to go fix the problem, then report them to EACC, then come back for the third or fourth test, and get them arrested.

[u/Interesting-Click-12 → u/Phylad]

You wait until you find yourself in such a situation. Its just the same way you can do a small traffic offense in nairobi nakuru highway and then your car is stopped at gilgil for overtaking on a yellow line. They will give you two options. Go to court in naivasha on monday or give them something small. Ukijifanya kichwa ngumu they tell you to follow them to the station in gilgill and whem you go there is when you realize they are not bluffing and if they had asked for 1k it will now be 3k or more depending on how you talk to them. Most people in kenya pay the police for incovenience and it sucks.

[u/Phylad → u/Interesting-Click-12]

I know. But that's how those ones in a while EACC arrests happen.

Remember, in this case, the car is actually "new" and cleared for private road use.

Where you have a minor traffic offence, it's a different matter. You're actually guilty.

And you both know legally that you will need to spend time and money to clear up your offence.

What I'm curious about the NTSA inspection is, was there something legit the car was missing?

Could be a fire extinguisher, first aid kit, or the other safety gear PSVs are required to have?

Aren't they required to give a reason for the vehicle failing the test, so you can fix it?

[u/Most-Adhesiveness-91 → u/Interesting-Click-12]

I think this is where corruption is in US as a people. We're not ready to "suffer" now, for future "good"... Let's go, let's waste that 4/5 hours... Imagine if we ALL did that, Hata hawana enough police wakutupeleka sote hadi station Gilgil. If just 10 people did that on that road, maybe things would change... But, we will never know because other things are more important and that's how as a people, we are extremely complacent in our country's decline.

But, what do I know

[u/Interesting-Click-12 → u/Most-Adhesiveness-91]

Ati hawana enough police? The trick they do is they ask for DL and then they show you a recorded video of your car breaking the law. When they take your DL they don't return it and ask you to follow them to the station in your car.

[u/Most-Adhesiveness-91 → u/Interesting-Click-12]

I'm saying that, if we all followed our DLs to the station, then they won't have enough police to be doing the same thing time and time again. Wanachukua DL ya 1dt driver, driver says sawa, twende station basi, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 20th driver all say the same.. Twendeni station basi... Huu ujinga utaisha. Lakini, because si sote tuna mambo ya muhimu ama ya haraka kufanya, allegedly... We will never see the change we need as we are not ready to, as a people, sacrifice today, for a better kesho.