Get your facts right. The website was referring to Ole Kirgotty who was both the Registrar and Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and consequently drew two salaries from both KRA and MoT.

However the current Registrar Ole Meja is Registrar ONLY and the post of Commissioner of Motor Vehicles was done away with to be replaced with Commissioner for Support Services under whose docket Road Transport Department falls.

Admittedly the website is referring to a non-existence post. You can simply call the listed line and ask for Commissioner for Road Transport and then tell me the response you get...

@Sizzla; The website does NOT say anywhere that the Registrar of Motor Vehicle is not an employee of KRA as you asserted earlier.

It lists that office as one of KRA's departments. Therefore, if there is a shortage of logbooks, taxpayers can only put the blame on the Registrar. Telling us about the procurement processes is neither here nor there. Ultimately, the public face of Motor Vehicle registration is Mr. Meja and he is the one to take responsibility - he should be shown the door for incompetence.

But that is besides the point because i agree that it is incompetent for KRA to run out of logbooks. Unfortunately, the Registrar is just a political appointee and wields little influence over the 'junior' officers in KRA. Sad but true...

Morning, actually even though Registrar of Motor Vehicles is listed as a department, it is actually known as Road Transport Department. And being the informed citizen you are you should be well aware that not all information posted on websites of public institutions is correct. Case in point, i vaguely remember when the City Hall website indicated a different mayor for years....

Anyway, we all know that its quite rare for Kenyans to turn down lucrative jobs even if their powers are significantly 'trimmed'. In fact the current Registrar occupies the TLB chairman's office since the KRA management deemed it fit to give the old office to another Commissioner rather than an 'outsider'. Just goes to show how petty government officers can be...

Lastly, i mean "political appointee" because the current Registrar was actually handpicked by Kimunya from his previous job at Equity. There was no job advert placed in the dailies nor were there any interviews conducted.