Ntungamo Town Clerk dies in Bodaboda accident

Jul 17, 2013

Ntungamo municipal council town Clerk was crashed to death in a tragic accident involving a bodaboda and a car.

By David Mugabe

The Ntungamo municipal council town Clerk was last night crashed to death in a tragic accident involving a bodaboda and an oncoming car.

Denis Egwel was on a bodaboda motorcycle on his way to his home in Naalya. The motorcycle was branching slightly opposite Naalya S.S. when they were run down by an oncoming car.

The oncoming speeding car skidded but failed to break crashing Egwel and the rider who remains in a critical condition in Mulago. Egwel was rushed to a nearby clinic but his condition detoriated and was later taken to Mulago where he succumbed to the injuries later last evening

Egwel is the latest victim in one of the most dangerous transport means in the country that remains unregulated even after claiming thousands of lives and causing countless injuries to passengers and riders.

By Tuesday night tributes poured in on social media for a young man who not only has scaled the ladders in public service within a short time with no blemish on his record but had traversed the country and the continent offering his service.

The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has recently spoken of moving in to contain and regulate the bodaboda operations which is not only dangerous to other road users despite its being a handy mode of transport in a congested city with narrow roads.

But no practical action has been taken with the service also being used as a political tool.
 

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