It will be interesting to know how this will end.

The army guys actually took the NTSA guys hostage and they had to beg to be released!!!

C & P

The Court of Appeal has said the use of breathalysers to arrest drunk drivers is illegal.

A three-judge bench on Friday said the laws introduced by NTSA are inconsistent with the Traffic Act.

The court ordered that they be taken back to Parliament for review.

The decision was reached after a successful petition by Reminisce club on Langata road.

In March 2014, the court ruled that the two cases that sought to abolish the breathalysers be argued together.


Justice Mumbi Ngugi consolidated the first case filed by Richard Ogendo and another by Kariuki Ruitha - proprietor of Reminisce Sports Bar.

Pottermark Enterprises, the company that supplies the gadgets under the Alco-blow brand was also involved as an interested party.

NTSA is not the system to help us my friend. That's a corruption den.

Just incase you didn't understand what the ruling was about

Section 44 of the Traffic Act criminalises the driving of a car under the influence of alcohol to an extent that the driver has no proper control of the vehicle.

Nowhere does it discuss the amount of alchohol you should or should not drink. As the alcoblow tenderprenuers would like to suggest.

Stop blaming courts and figure out why you voted for the fellow who can't read simple english and make a law that's consistent with existing laws.

sawa, I totally, 100% agree with you, did not know about the law, thanks for pointing that out.
I am also very sorry, I will not vote for the fellow who can't read again, I beg for your forgiveness.

The pub owner was right, those things are just for corruption sake, the guys from the pubs can properly control their vehicles, after all the car knows the way home.

Clarification: Use of Alco-blow

In 2014, a case was filed at the high court to suspend the breathalyzer rules. The case was heard and dismissed by the court on the grounds that the breathlizer rules were lawful.

In 2015, the above decision of the high court was appealed before the court of appeal and the decision was read on Friday 7th April 2017.

In its ruling, the court of appeal dismissed the whole appeal and upheld the high court decision. The court noted that the breathalyzer rules did not introduce any new offenses other than those in the Traffic Act.

In its observation,the court noted that there was need to amend the Traffic Act to realign it to the breathalyzer rules.

NTSA informs members of the public that driving under the influence of alcohol is an offense and that the Authority will continue to execute its mandate so as to keep our roads safe.

Francis Meja
Director General NTSA

Sitaki, you are learning slowly. Very slowly.

I get it, you are trying to use my previous arguments to make yours...

But you still don't get it. Obviously you vote for these fellas who passed this law.

Laws are not supposed to be made to make you find Jesus. Otherwise, we might all as well join ISIS.

Laws are supposed to be created to get those that go against the norm consistently. With these I mean like Jubilee gov't all the time. Their homies stealing money in gunias..All the time....

Not charging a simple broke matatu driver 30k for overlapping. Why the hell do you think we have cops in Kikuyu, hapo Gatitu getting 200 bob for a manyanga, 100 bob for a nissan every day? Ama you want to find out if I really went to primary school like joho..I actually have a phd, in something you can't pronounce.

It's because the stupid fella you voted for made it a law.

I don't pay hongo. But my kids first. 200 bob vs 30k. Washa niripe hio hongo.

You don't get it..

As long as you create stupid laws, the more corruption you have....

Tafadhali sitaki, tembea dunia....Itumbi has only gone to state house and thinks amefika...He's your boss lakini, bado.

I can leave a pub high like a kite. But unless a cop in Massachussets sees me wobbling on the road or not using the turn lights, he can't arrest me

We call it entrapment...

That is what alchoblow is. ENTRAPMENT.

I thought you were going to cause an offence, so I arrest you. I Kenyan thinking. I thought you are drunk, so you are going to kill people.

When you think about laws like that, I shall take it a few steps for you.

I thought you are a malaya, so I should touch your boobs. Wait, entrapment...I thought you are a kyuk, so you are a thief....I thought, I thought I thought...

There's nothing worse than a drunk driver...That I agreee with...

But please, in Kenya...Road blocks are illegal...But please, like please.

The law is supposed to be consistent. All the parts...Sio the part that you like.

This was and is a bad law....It may have saved you from being stupid, but it's still a bad law.

I hate laws created because of morality. There's nothing wrong with drinking. There's nothing wrong with driving. Actually when you think about it, there's nothing evil about drinking and driving.

But the traffic law is right.

There's something wrong about not having control of your car.

You don't have to drink to cause accidents. In fact, you could be sober. But sick. Probably have a nut in your nut.

If you want to make people to stop drinking, please give birth to better children.

I drink. I don't drive. Don't even drive when I'm sober. That has nothing to do with alcoblow.

These kind of laws are the ones that have made murchr have a job.

Bad laws. Very bad laws don't protect you. They actually f*** you up.

Think dummy. Matatu drivers are sober at 10am. But they kill people. It was not the alchohol, dummy.

It was, "NOT HAVE CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE". Now I know why you vote for these people,.