Govt sets up committee to regulate bodaboda industry

Jan 28, 2018

Kamya said all bodaboda riders will have to be registered again in order to be allowed to operate in the city.

PIC: Beti Kamya, the Minister of Kampala. (Credit: Maria Wamala)

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KAMPALA - Following several complaints over the operation of the bodaboda industry, particularly in Kampala, the Government has set up a committee to regulate the business.

Kampala minister Beti Kamya made the revelation on Saturday at the Office of the President in Kampala shortly after meeting bodoboda riders.

According to Kamya, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) in partnership with the security ministry as well as the works ministry, is to come up with rules and regulations to govern the bodaboda business.

She said all bodaboda riders will have to be registered again in order to be allowed to operate in the city.

Kamya disclosed that no individual or an organisation is supposed to charge or confiscate bodabodas, pending Government regulations, which are in offing.

Presiding over the National Resistance Movement (NRM) 32nd Liberation Day celebrations in Arua on Friday, President Yoweri Museveni also condemned bad road users, especially bodaboda cyclists in the city, which he said scare away foreign investors.

The move comes after the arrest of the Bodaboda 2010 chairperson Abdullah Kitatta and his team, who according to Kamya, have been interrupting KCCA's efforts to regulate the business.       

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