Paying Ksh20,000 To Change Your Car's Colour & Other Proposed NTSA Charges
NTSA unveiled the second draft of the Financial Sustainability Study which proposed an increase of services by up to 900% to finance its budget deficit amounting to more than Ksh2.3 billion.
Marvin Chege 
Kenyan motorists risk digging deeper into their pockets for services from the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) should proposals to increase its service charges go through.
On Monday, November 11, NTSA unveiled the second draft of the Financial Sustainability Study which proposed an increase of services by up to 900% to finance its budget deficit amounting to more than Ksh2.3 billion.
In draft proposals by the NTSA, that are being subjected to stakeholder engagement, road service licenses for public service vehicles will increase between 98% to 100%
This means that for a road license for a PSV with between 6-8 passengers, one risks paying Ksh2,700 to Ksh5,400 while that of a PSV with 26 passengers or more will witness a 98% rise to Ksh8,400.
An image of NTSA vehicles. /CAPITAL GROUP
Vehicle inspection charges will also rise between 100% and 250% with vehicles below 3000 cc (cubic centimetres) charged Ksh2,000 for inspection up from Ksh1,000
For heavy commercial vehicles exceeding 5 tonnes, drivers will have to part with Ksh3,500 from Ksh1,000 which is a 250% increase.
The cost of motor vehicle registration has also been proposed to go up by 100%. That is, registration of vehicles below 1000cc will increase from Ksh1,700 to Ksh3,400 while those 3001 and above cc will pay Ksh16,600 up from Ksh8,300.
The proposals will also see you pay 3900% more to change the particulars such as the colour of your vehicle from Ksh500 to Ksh20,000. Yes, Ksh20,000.
Furthermore, the transfer of ownership for motor vehicles not exceeding 1000cc will cost you five times more from Ksh1,660 to Ksh10,000. The transfer of ownership of other vehicles will go up by 100%.
The renewal of licenses for motor vehicle dealers is also proposed to go up. For a second-hand motor vehicle dealer license, you will pay Ksh100,000 up from between Ksh4,200 and Ksh9,600 which is an increase of over 2200%.
"Our proposed financial improvement in terms of capacity is a long-term improvement because the rates that we have have not been reviewed for the last 10 years. Services have been increasing yet the rates have remained constant. That is why we have asked that we adjust," NTSA board member Paul Posh told the press on Monday.
According to the board of directors at NTSA, the authority has been operating at a deficit and so they have had to make the changes to make NTSA sustainable, with the authority having a budget deficit of Ksh2.4 billion as of June 30, 2023.
The board attributed the need to make changes in its rates to more responsibilities at NTSA which has necessitated more funding, noting that the deficit is more than Ksh500 million every year.
“Now it’s more than a billion in terms of deficit and we are looking at the long term and our improvement is a long-term one as our rates have not changed for the past 10 years," added Posh.
“Our capacity has been growing, our challenges to the number of roads, the number of inspection stations have been growing and so we will need more money."
The proposals will be put through public participation with members of the public expected to have their say on the same.
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