{"id":229015,"date":"2026-03-30T13:28:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-petitioners-welcome-ntsa-suspension-of-instant-fines-system-but-vow-to-continue-court-fight\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:28:54","slug":"kenya-petitioners-welcome-ntsa-suspension-of-instant-fines-system-but-vow-to-continue-court-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-petitioners-welcome-ntsa-suspension-of-instant-fines-system-but-vow-to-continue-court-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Petitioners Welcome NTSA Suspension of Instant Fines System but Vow to Continue Court Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Nairobi \u2014 Petitioners challenging the planned introduction of the Instant Fines Management System by the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) have welcomed the agency&#8217;s decision to pause the rollout, saying it aligns with concerns they raised in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">However, they maintain that their ongoing petition remains active and must still be determined by the High Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The petitioners note that the suspension comes shortly after the court, under Justice Bahati Mwamuye, issued conservatory&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603300383.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Petitioners challenging the planned introduction of the Instant Fines Management System by the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) have welcomed the agency&#8217;s decision to pause the rollout, saying it aligns with concerns they raised in court. However, they maintain that their ongoing petition remains active and must still be determined by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8005,6185,4345,7558,16461,4688,430,257,10500,32202,254,10829,7232,11704],"class_list":["post-229015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-continue","tag-court","tag-fight","tag-fines","tag-instant","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-ntsa","tag-petitioners","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspension","tag-system","tag-vow"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}