Nyamira County Commissioner Ms Josephine Onunga has vowed to streamline the transport sector which she said has of recent been marred with lawlessness.
Addressing journalists in her office in Nyamira after a meeting with stakeholders in the sector, Ms Onunga raised concern over the way the transport industry had been misused and mismanaged that has seen many accidents, which could have been avoided, claim many innocent lives.
She said lawlessness had engulfed the entire sector and that change was paramount to save the situation that deteriorated every other day.
“We have had a lengthy meeting with the transport industry stakeholders ranging from matatus, taxis and bodaboda operators and have all agreed to work together and stop the madness experienced in our roads," she said.
"We cannot sit and watch the law being assumed and lose our dear ones through avoidable accidents, we will work together until order returns to the sector."
According to Ms Onunga, the matatu drivers had ignored the use of the bus terminus and were carelessly picking and dropping of passengers by the road side with a lot of impunity.
She also said that bodabodas had started to be misused by the operator where she said that the riders were not adhering to traffic laws and that had led to death of many people.
“We want to bring sanity back to ensure that lives and properties of people are protected and unless we move with speed," she said.
She spoke barely two days after a lorry trying to overtake at a corner at Sironga trading centre veered off the road and killed one person on the spot while seriously injuring three others.