I have seen this sticker with " Baby Inside" either in words or graphics at the back of many cars. Now recently while on a trip to Biashara street, I discovered that these stickers are actually sold, some for as much as a whooping 800 bob. Initialy, I used to think it just was one of those dumb Kenyan moments like driving a Rav 4 with a Ski rack in Kenya or driving a car with japanese inscriptions whose english translation would be "we sell flowers" or "We fix broken toilets" but alas!!!

Does the sticker mean "Baby driving"?

If not, why is it important to tell everyone who is driving behind you that you are carrying a baby or babies. How am I supposed to "behave" if I am driving behind a car with such a sticker?

I look into many of these cars as I overtake them and it appears some Nairobians find it more sensible to buy these stickers than to buy a child car restraint, whose cost is usually not more than two tyres.

I take it that this is meant to inform other road users that incase they see certain gestures from inside the car they should be able to understand. Eg Imagine if a kid is excited about his/her new toy pistol and goes pointing outside the car with it and maybe spray water with it!!! A road user might end up in an accident fearing that somebody wants to spray acid or some other liquid to their eyes,shoot them through the rear glass etc.

I concur, esp those mat drivers who hoots senselessly & scare the kid stiff

Unless you are raising private Annah, this reeks of irresponsibility.

Well behaved kids even at two years old will not pull these pranks especially in your presence, most importantly directing them (e.g a toy pistol) at strangers.

I am taking it by the time the kid has the freedom to turn around and poit at the rear windshield, he or she is floating like a stupid boy's baloon waiting to burst instead of being safely belted up in a car seat. I learnt the hard way when my one and a half year old destroyer pushed the gear lever from Drive to Neutral, in the national geographic second-to-disaster style while I was climbing out of the KWS/Bomas drift. How would such a Baby Onboard sticker help me in such a case?

Needless to say, my next stop was a supermarket where I bought a car seat and where the boy belongs until he turns 6...apende asipende.

Very soon we'll have stickers reading "Randy Driver"