Mandatory vehicle inspection for all motorists will be enforced in June at the earliest, NTSA Director General Nashon Kondiwa has revealed.

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Speaking during an interview on Citizen TV on Tuesday, June 30, Kondiwa said the authority had revised the rollout schedule after determining that the country lacks sufficient inspection centres to support nationwide enforcement.

According to Kondiwa, the authority currently has only 17 inspection centres across the country and is working to expand the number to 47 before the end of 2026.

"The enforcement, the mandatory requirement, is what we are going to postpone until we have enough centres. We intend to have the centres by june 2027," Kondiwa stated.

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"We intend to have the 47 public centres by the end of this year. For the private ones, we are going to take up to a year, so that would be by June 2027," he added.

In addition to the 47 public centres, NTSA will also license at least 70 private centres by the end of June 2027.

Kondiwa insists that only then will the mandatory enforcement be in place because it will mean the authority has the capacity to accommodate the millions of vehicles in the country.

The NTSA boss says that compulsory enforcement will only commence once the authority has established sufficient inspection infrastructure nationwide.

The authority explained that vehicle inspection will begin on Wednesday, July 1, and only motorists who wish to have their vehicles inspected are free to do so voluntarily at existing NTSA inspection centres.

However, the new timelines do not apply to all vehicles. Kondiwa clarified that vehicles that are already required by law to undergo inspection for licensing purposes, including commercial vehicles and public service vehicles (PSVs), will continue to be inspected under the existing requirements.

📰 Source: Kenyans.co.ke