The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has a significant backlog of unprinted number plates, but the issue lies not with production capacity, but with funding allocation.

• The NTSA inherited a backlog of over 30,000 unprinted number plates that Kenyans had paid for.
• Director General Nashon Kondiwa proposed outsourcing plate production to private firms, a plan critics argue is an attempt to privatize a profitable public service.
• The core problem is that 60% of the NTSA's revenue is remitted to the National Treasury, leaving insufficient funds for timely payments to suppliers and material acquisition.