NRM diaspora league launches traffic awareness campaign
Jan 30, 2017
The NRM diaspora league chairman Mr Patrick Assimwe who was represented by Mr. Robert Kageme said that this comes in response to the recent increase of accidents on Ugandan roads.
NRM diaspora league members have joined Uganda police in disseminating information about traffic awareness in Uganda to avoid accidents.
The Kampala metropolitan traffic commander Senior Superintendent of Police Norman Musinga who flagged off the awareness campaign at the fire station last week at the clock tower said that Uganda police welcomes any input from the community in helping it reduce accidents.
‘ We need support from the community in reducing accidents because this will involve people keeping watch over each other not to over speed or drink drive rather than police acting alone for it cannot reach every corner where people dissert traffic laws that cause accidents' says Musinga
The NRM diaspora league chairman Mr Patrick Assimwe who was represented by Mr. Robert Kageme said that this comes in response to the recent increase of accidents on Ugandan roads.
‘As members of the NRM diaspora league, life of our people back home is more important than the money we make abroad therefore we are touched by the rapid accidents in Uganda which is one of the ways that people lose life.
We are going to try mobilizing the purchase of several speed cameras in order to curb careless driving and over speeding on our roads to save lives' says Kageme.
The spokesperson NRM diaspora league Moses Kimuli said that rapid accidents in Uganda affect the tourism sector because tourist want to visit countries with good traffic law settings rather than countries that don't mind about traffic laws hence reducing on our foreign taxes.
Kimuli said that reflector jackets and leaflets were given to boda boda cyclists and taxi drivers as a step to encourage them take the campaign forward.