Lamenting Won't Help Us.

(From The Nation (Kenya) - AAGM)

These days, it has become rather difficult to say anything new about the Traffic Police Department and the way it has mishandled the reforms introduced by former Transport minister John Michuki two years ago.

What was hailed as a revolution in mass transport has become stillborn, and the sanity restored to the matatu industry has been allowed to degenerate to the same levels as before the Michuki rules.

For a while, in those heady days, Kenyans heaved a sight of relief even as they suffered for a couple of months, having to walk to work and back every day. They bore it bravely, and sincerely believed they had won a …