Roads and roundabouts in Nairobi, Kenya capital will no longer require the services of traffic police officers due to the decision of the government to install CCTV cameras on traffic lights to monitor and control traffic.
The project will kickoff on March 1, 2014 following months of upgrades of traffic lights and installation of CCTV to monitor major roads in Nairobi. This was disclosed by the governor of Nairobi, Dr. Evans Kidero.
He said the machines are more than capable of controlling traffic meaning the police can be redeployed to handle security.
“Where there is electronic traffic control system there is no need to add human’s intervention,” he said.
He was commended by a committee tasked with decongesting Nairobi also noted that a number of cameras installed along University Way in the past few weeks had already been destroyed by rioting students.
“We are going to claim repairs of the university way from the University of Nairobi and the ones from Nyayo stadium from the contractor who interfered with the cables,” he added.
