NAIROBI, Kenya- Senior Counsel Donald Kipkorir has called on the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) and KCB Bank to explain how a traffic fine ended up in a private bank account, raising fresh concerns over the integrity of Kenya’s traffic enforcement system.
In a series of posts on X, Kipkorir said his younger brother received a notification from NTSA informing him that he had been fined for a traffic offence linked to speeding.
According to the lawyer, his brother initially sought to verify the authenticity of the message before making any payment.
“He called the number on it and was told to pay the fine in any KCB nearest to him,” Kipkorir said.
Kipkorir said that after returning to Nairobi, his brother visited the KCB branch at Freedom Heights on Lang’ata Road, where a bank teller allegedly confirmed that the fine was genuine and advised him to make the payment.
“He paid the fine and was issued with a KCB receipt,” Kipkorir wrote.
However, he said the transaction raised questions after his brother received a mobile money notification indicating that the funds had been credited to an account bearing the name Catherine Jerono Tomno rather than a government account.
“The entire process looked so legitimate except that after paying, my bro got the text alert that the money was paid to an account of CATHERINE JERONO TOMNO,” Kipkorir said.
He questioned why money collected as a government traffic fine would be deposited into what appeared to be a private account.
“Unless NTSA and KCB publicly respond to this, then we will assume that they are part of a scheme to defraud Kenyans. Why should public funds be deposited in a private account?” he asked.
Kipkorir also shared images of what he said were the payment receipt and transaction confirmation to support his claims.
The allegations come amid heightened public scrutiny of NTSA’s traffic enforcement measures and new penalties targeting road safety violations.
Motorists have in recent weeks raised concerns over increased fines, speed camera enforcement and the introduction of mandatory annual inspections for private vehicles older than four years, arguing that the measures impose an additional financial burden at a time of rising living costs.
The revelations have also emerged against the backdrop of growing public debate over the transparency of traffic fine collection and the use of digital payment systems by government agencies.
By Tuesday morning, neither NTSA nor KCB had publicly responded to Kipkorir’s allegations or confirmed the authenticity of the payment documents he shared.