Driving schools say NTSA curriculum bad for country

The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has been accused of imposing harsh curriculum and regulations on how driving schools in the country should operate.

The Kenya Driving Schools Associations is faulting NTSA for introducing a curriculum from Holland without considering the fact that transport system in Europe is much more advanced than in Kenya.

According to the Association’s chairman, John Mwatha, the ‘curriculum should be gradual and can take up to 30 years hence NTSA should not implement it now’.

Among the new regulations that the new curriculum is advocating for includes a minimum education requirement of a Standard Eight KCPE certificate for one to take a driving course, a continued driving courses for all drivers after every nine years and that all driving schools must have more than a 1.7 acres land to conduct their practical lessons.

If implemented, Mwatha says that it will lead to high rate of unemployment among the youth as many will not meet the requirements.

“It is not a must that one should go to school in order to qualify to undertake a driving course,” he said.

Nakuru Governor, Kinuthia Mbugua, shared the same sentiments and opposed the proposed regulations.

Written by Michael Majanga