When its everyone's duty then it becomes no-ones duty. Road signs are a basic necessity on a road and so is user education and enforcement of regulations. A matatu stopping on the highway to pick up passengers should loose its TLB license, driver should be arrested etc. is that 40 million Kenyans responsibility?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:solo.mburu@gmail.com" target="_blank">solo.mburu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Just a by the way, when the latest and unfortunate blast that hit a<br>
Mombasa club yesterday, someone on Facebook aptly put the blame on<br>
Prof. Saitoti, urging him to resign. I just couldn't understand the<br>
unjustifiable rationale there, yet we harbour crooks in our midst and<br>
fail to report them to law enforcers. Now back to this topic, I think<br>
it's each person's responsibility to the well-being of all road users<br>
on Thika Road or any other road for that matter. When a rogue matatu<br>
driver decides to overlap or drives at devil's speed, the passengers<br>
will urge him to go ahead, with zest, replicating the 'dereva tia<br>
moto', attitude. Yes, each one of us is guilty, because we - from the<br>
Minister in charge of roads, traffic cops, drivers and pedestrians -<br>
have failed to take a collective responsibility on our roads. We need<br>
to stand up and be active participants on how to make our roads safe.<br>
It's not just the responsibility of the contractors (or government)<br>
but each one of us.<br>
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On 16/05/2012, <a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I like the way some of us take things casually until that rogue driver rams<br>
> into you and maims you , I liken it to the way our football stars have<br>
> abandoned the National team because of mediocre management yet instead of<br>
> addressing the issue we call it whining and lack of patriotism, lest I<br>
> forget we need 10 billion to fix our beautifull roads that were recently<br>
> constructed no wonder MJ called us peculiar, tafakari hayo.<br>
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> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Revisiting Deadly Thika Road<br>
><br>
> +1<br>
><br>
> On 16 May 2012 08:19, K Machuhi <<a href="mailto:kmachuhi@gmail.com">kmachuhi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> This Thika Road whining is becoming rather tiring.<br>
>> It is your duty as a driver to observe caution and to be your brother's<br>
>> keeper.<br>
>> As a frequent user of the road (all of it) for the last 22 years, I<br>
>> marvel<br>
>> at the new piece of road we have there; as i marvel at recklessness of<br>
>> some<br>
>> drivers.<br>
>><br>
>> May China's Wu Yi and others move their magic to Ngong road....<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Mark Mwangi <<a href="mailto:mwangy@gmail.com">mwangy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> it is indeed sad when state officials defend obvious ills.<br>
>>><br>
>>> There is a problem, everyone sees it but they would rather deny it<br>
>>> exists<br>
>>> and blame detractors. Whatever happened to standards?<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Edith Adera <<a href="mailto:eadera@idrc.or.ke">eadera@idrc.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Listers,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Very sad indeed to hear the Minister of Roads (today on TV) defend<br>
>>>> Thika<br>
>>>> road unconvincingly!<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> When things are not done well, we must be honest enough to acknowledge<br>
>>>> where things went wrong and to come up with some proposals on what will<br>
>>>> be<br>
>>>> done to improve the works and address the high road carnage. Rather<br>
>>>> than<br>
>>>> resort to the usual defensive position - that does not help anyone<br>
>>>> Minister<br>
>>>> Bett. I would have expected you to have an open forum to discuss the<br>
>>>> concerns of Kenyans rather than be so dismissive!<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Despite being assured that the issue had been brought to the attention<br>
>>>> of<br>
>>>> Eng Kidenda, there is no response to date! Grace, I wonder if you had<br>
>>>> any<br>
>>>> luck in reaching Eng Kidenda for an open debate.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Edith, Concerned Kenyan Citizen!<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
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