Motorists angered by shoddy plates

Motoring columnist, Gavin Bennet, once described Kenyan number plates as resembling, “pieces of battle field shrapnel.” Evidence collected from the streets of Nairobi shows that the analogy was quite correct.

Irregular cutting and lack of alignment.

Clearly, this number plate was cut by hand.

Kenyan motorists have decried the poor standards of licence plates issued by the Kenya Revenue Authority. “It doesn’t make sense to spend millions of shillings on a good car and then have to fix poorly done plates that are worse than jua kali material,” goes a popular refrain. On its part, the Kenya Revenue Authority says it is working to improve the quality of number plates but puts the blame on the Prisons Department, whose inmates make the plates.