The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) has stepped up efforts to professionalize its weighbridge operations through enhanced staff training and sensitization programmes, underscoring its wider commitment to integrity and accountability in infrastructure management.
In its latest initiative, KeNHA partnered with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to train Webuye-based weighbridge staff on crime scene management.
The specialised training focused on preserving the integrity of evidence, handling sensitive incidents, and ensuring that due process is observed whenever crimes or disputes arise around axle load enforcement.
Participants included officers from the Axle Load Enforcement Highway Unit (ALEHU), led by the Deputy Officer Commanding Webuye Weighbridge, as well as management staff from Savory Agencies Limited, the firm contracted to assist in weighbridge operations.
This follows an ongoing initiative run by EACC to sensitize KeNHA axle load staff on ethics in their line of duty.
In recent times, KeNHA axle load units have faced a spate of attacks on staff enforcing axle load regulations.
This has led to damages on publicly-funded patrol vehicles, and posing a threat by allowing overloaded trucks on our highways.
The collaboration will also extend in tracking down organized goons who waylay axle load enforcement units, and cause harm to police officers executing their mandate.
Overloaded trucks remain a persistent challenge on Kenyan highways, with excess axle loads blamed for accelerating road damage and inflating maintenance costs.
KeNHA estimates that improper loading reduces road lifespan by as much as 60 per cent, diverting scarce resources from expansion to repairs.
