Some of the drivers need to go back to school, Those who drive with full lights without caring about other drivers. Those who overtake in sharp bends, where there are continuous yellow lines. Those who overtake you and immediately come in front of you without giving you the space forcing you to slow down and lastly those lorry/bus divers who don't have respect for the small cars. This are unqualified drivers and need to go back to school.

Boarding

There are some simple steps that can be taken. One of them is issuing "second generation" driving license and performing a thorough database check [if a proper one exists] before issuing the new license. Most drivers - especially matatu drivers - have licenses from river road. Most of them - former conductors - cannot 'waste' the money and time required to attend a driving school. They already know how to 'drive' [More like move a vehicle from point A to point B] anyway. I would also be open to an comprehensive exam before one is issued with the "second generation" license. If you are a qualified driver you don't need to go back to driving school for that, do you?

One more thing, the driving test/exam needs to be overhauled. It is a big joke. Washa gari. Haya twende. Weka gia two. Simamisha. Enda ningoje kwa station. What the hell? And then the next day the same fellow is free to zoom down Mombasa road! Let's get serious!! One should be tested on 3-point turn, hill start, driving on a highway, roundabout, junctions etc. The exam should not take less than an hour - it would rather cost more. It is human lives we are talking about here.

These regulatory organs are sickening. TLB wanatafuta pesa. Before they get to the point where everyone is being asked to go back to school, the situation should have been arrested. What are they doing to control standards and ensure that the currently in driving school are properly being trained?
The biggest problem is with enforcement of the rules - After everyone has passed the new driving tests, with the same rules and same players, there will still be accidents.

For starters, traffic offences are treated as minor offences…– what’s the steepest penalty that anyone can be slapped with under the Traffic Act? I’ve seen people charged with reckless driving walking away with a fine of less than 5k, license intact, straight back to the road.

Just enforce the law consistently! We seem to have a problem with consistent law enforcement in the country. At a roundabout, I see matatus on the wrong lane and the cops just look on!! There are some few cops who actually tell them to go the way the lane dictates but most especially on Uhuru Highway , Do not care! and so the impunity continues.

I remember one Mr Sang' nyoroshad those fellows of Jogoo road ( including Mats) who loved to overlapp in about two weeks. He was there consistently and if he caught you overlapping, he would take you car keys and ask you to count 100 cars ( in traffic) by the time he came back, you had lost about an hour. He would give you back your keys and off you go. The next day, one would not be caught dead overlapping.
Those were serious cops. It was romoured that he culd not read well so even if your Road licence or insurance was expired, you would just stop right infront of him. He would look at it and ask you to drive on. But he would not let you use the wrong lane. Never.