Police have issued a warning to social media users circulating reports of fake accidents on Kenyan roads.
According to National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) coast regional coordinator Ismail Farah, his team had severally responded to the alarming reports only to find out the photos posted on the internet, were from past accidents in Tanzania and Nigeria.
"We have been responding to fake road accidents along Mombasa-Nairobi Highway and Mombasa-Malindi Highway because of irresponsible social media users. Some cases were reported in Nigeria and Tanzania," he said.
Mr Farah stated that the fake alerts were creating tension among Kenyans disclosing that since the begining of December, there were only two accidents recorded on the two major Highways.
"We only had the TSS bus accident where three people lost their lives at Bonje along Mariakani-Mombasa Road and a second one involving a saloon car which lead to deaths of four along Mombasa-Malindi Road. The rest were lies," Farah inferred.
The NTSA boss divulged that he had asked the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) to investigate and arrest the scaremongers spreading the lies on social media.
"We are always running up and down responding to false accidents triggered by circulation of photos on social media mostly at night. We have requested DCI to track for those alarmists," Farah highlighted.
