NAIROBI, Kenya Dec 30 – Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has directed the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) to suspend operations of the Modern Coast Company pending investigations on a recent accident involving one of their buses.
The accident that occurred on December 28, 2022, at River Masosa at Makutano junction in Kisii County left one person dead and scores injured.
“As a Ministry, we take the matter of road safety seriously and we will not hesitate to take stern action against anyone flouting traffic rules,” Murkomen said in a statement on Friday.
Consequently, Murkomen has directed the company to facilitate the travel of all passengers who had booked with them.
“I will issue a comprehensive statement on this matter once the investigation are complete,” he said.
The company has in recent years attracted negative publicity following a spate of accidents involving its buses.
In July 2022, the company’s operations were suspended after one of their buses plunged into Nithi River at the Nithi bridge black spot, killing 36 people and injuring scores of others.
In 2017, the company was also on the spot after one of its buses was also involved in an accident that left 15 people dead at the Sachangwan black spot on the Nakuru-Eldoret highway.
