Following attacks on social media, the NTSA chairman Lee Kinyanjui has been forced to explain the recent directive on matatus.
Through the hashtag, #GraffitiandMusic, Kenyans On twitter had bashed the NTSA claiming that going after the graffiti on matatus was a matter of misplaced priorities and killing a livelihood for thousands of youths.
In Nakuru, the war was taken up extensively on WhatsApp leading the chairman to respond on the same forum after the scathing attacks.
“Engage in a debate from a point of knowledge. We have responded to public complaints and enforced a rule gazetted in 2014,” wrote Lee on the influential Nakuru Analysts WhatsApp group.
He added that the rule allows creative artwork as long as the windows are clear and not tinted.
“The writing and artwork should not contain sexual, violent or radicalisation messages,” explained Kinyanjui adding that so far no vehicles had been arrested for playing music.
“The noise we are enforcing is from modified exhaust systems that interfere with other road users,” he wrote.