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The National Transport and Safety Authority is set to launch new driving licenses by end of next month, NTSA Director of Road Safety Njeri Waithaka has said.The smart driving licences will be fitted with electronic chips that will contain key details of a driver and will allow a driver’s profile to be created for every license holder which will help profile a driver behavior.Njeri said the licences will help crack down on rogue drivers, more so those of private vehicles, whom she says are to blame for the majority of road fatalities caused on Kenyan roads.“The smart driving license is going to be a one stop where this drivers profile is listed when the driver got the license, even their manner of driving, have they had convictions. So if a driver is convicted and arrested today for drink-driving and again next week for drink-driving, we shall have a profile that this driver is a risky road user,” she said during interview with Capital FM News on Wednesday.“That will allow us to instill change in the sense that whereas before a driver can have various convictions which are not connected anywhere and the insurances companies or even the police themselves are not able to piece together,” she added.All Kenyans will be required to have the new licenses that will be launched in phases to give time to people who have renewed theirs for several months.