City Tyres commits to USPA Road Safety Campaign
Sep 15, 2016
City Tyres also initiated a road safety campaign football tournament that will be played in different parts of the country
City Tyres has committed to continuously support the annual USPA Road Safety Campaign after presenting a sh7m cheque to the Uganda Sports Press Association for this year's campaign.
City Tyres marketing manager Herbert Bashasha and retail head R Giridharan presented the cheque to USPA executive members Rita Aliguma and Robert Magembe, led by president Sabiiti Muwanga at City Tyres offices on Thursday.
"We've been with USPA for over ten years; it's not about us being top in the auto industry but we also care for the lives of the people on the roads and I want to thank even all your predecessors who initiated this. It has really put this campaign to another level," Bashasha said.
"This year we discovered that many of our drivers don't know much about road signs so we decided to come up with a theme to remind them about the importance of road signs, though we have had a similar theme before," Muwanga said.
"We are going to different taxi stages to give out these signs and encourage them to study and understand them, as per this year's theme 'Learn and Respect Traffic Signs'," Muwanga added.
Muwanga flanked by City Tyres senior corporate sales executive Herbert Bashaasha displays the chart with road signs. Photo by Mpalanyi Ssentongo
Mbabazi displays stickers for the campaign. Photo by Mpalanyi Ssentongo
He hailed City Tyres for initiating a road safety campaign football tournament that will be played in different parts of the country where the road safety campaigns will be held
Earlier KCCA FC players distributed road signs posters, reflectors and stickers to motorists and boda boda riders in Nakawa. KCCA FC and UNRA are new partners in the annual campaign.
On Saturday, USPA members will assemble at in Buwama Sub County at 8am before painting a zebra crossing in Buwama town ahead of a series of football matches involving four teams; USPA, standard Chartered, boda boda and taxi drivers.
KCCA FC and UNRA had joined this year's campaign which began after four USPA executive members; Simon Peter Ekarot, Leo Kabunga, Kenneth Matovu and Francis Batte Jr. perished in an accident in Lugazi in 2001.