More than 7,000 Kenyans have been issued with the new smart driving licenses, National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has said.
Speaking during an interview, NTSA Director-General Francis Meja said the licences were mainly issued to public service vehicle (PSV) drivers since February, when the digital document was launched. Meja said the chip-empowered licence costs Sh3,000.
“We are now at 7,000 and the exercise has been rolled out to other towns such as Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Kisii, Eldoret and Nyeri. All you need to come with is a copy of your old driving licence, a copy of the national identity card, a Kenya Revenue Authority PIN, blood group and Sh3,000,” said Meja.
The e-driving licence is loaded with points that get deducted every time a driver commits a traffic offence, with NTSA withdrawing one’s licence when the points are exhausted.
“At the moment, no preference is being given to anyone in the issuance of the licence. As long as you have the required documents and are qualified, the new generation driving licences are available in any of our centres,” Meja said.
The chip-empowered licences, widely used in the Western countries, will be loaded with 20 maximum points that are deducted progressively based on the magnitude of the offence committed.
Minor breaches such as overlapping will see one point deducted, while drivers will recover a single lost point if they are not found culpable of another offence in a period of one week.
Serious offences including drunk driving and speeding will lead to loss of more than 10 points, fines and other disciplinary actions such as withdrawal of a license for life.
“All drivers will be required to abide by the set regulations. The aim is not to punish anybody but to curb rising cases of road accidents,’ said Meja.
This is a good initiative…
This is a good initiative but do we have a central command to monitor all this traffic offences and enforce them like done in Europe?
We are at it again. Copying…
We are at it again. Copying the west. How does your blood group help cab accidents? Duality of life. We can easily help you, or if we need such blood group for one of our own we can easily come for it. We can easily use blood group for either the goodness of the community or for evil. In the West, people have choices, they are not forced to disclose their blood group. Some of them do and some of them don’t. The choice is for the individual. Give Kenyans that choice. God help Kenya!!!
halo I need to know how long…
halo I need to know how long does one be able to get his or her driving license as some of them have done exams by traffic officer but up-to now they don’t have any documents to show
blood group for?
blood group for?