New government to introduce right side driving

Monday, April 1, 2013

New Government to introduce right side driving



The Kenyatta government will make everything all right — on the roads, that is.
A surprise leak from State House, Nairobi, reveals that one of the first acts of the new administration is likely to be to switch driving from the British left-hand side of the road to the right, as favoured by the US, Europe and the Chinese.

The change is being seen as Mr Kenyatta’s answer to the British who, it is claimed, heavily supported his Cord opponent Raila Odinga during the recent elections.It has the added advantage of pleasing Kenya’s major trade partners, the Chinese, who built most of the country’s new trunk roads and flyovers and will now be awarded lucrative contract to reverse the entire roads system.

Roundabouts will have to face the other way, slip roads will be re-routed, the highways themselves need to swop sides and all flyovers will have to be redesigned as underpasses.

In addition many new hospitals and clinics will have to be opened to cope with the expected influx of seriously injured pedestrians who, bemused by the new system, are expected to walk into the paths of oncoming vehicles. The only exemption from the new Keep Right rule will be matatus, which will be allowed, as previously, to drive on the pavements of their choice.

One major change that will hit all drivers in their pockets, however, will be to have their vehicles adapted to right hand drive. Wheelchairs and motorcycles are likely to be exempted.

Meanwhile, as the formal announcement of the decision is expected Monday, April 1, the Chinese charge d’affaires from the country’s embassy in Kenya, Mr Hi Way Run, has been seconded to State House to oversee both the change in driving habits and the massive new building programme.

It is thought that in an act of conciliation Mr Odinga might be invited to join the Kenyatta Cabinet but in his former position of Roads minister.

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So... though it took me about a minute and a half to understand the intended purpose of this article, I definitely got it... did you?

APRIL FOOLS!!! 

This is article was found in one of the country's newspapers, The Daily Nation. Pretty  awesome. They almost got me. :)