Police hold over 700 boda bodas

Mar 06, 2018

This operation targets riders who violate traffic rules and regulations around all the 18 divisions of Kampala Metropolitan Area, according to Kampala Metropolitan Traffic Police Commander SSP Norman Musinga.

 

Over 700 boda bodas have been seized in a traffic police operation to clamp down on lawless riders since January.

This operation targets riders who violate traffic rules and regulations around all the 18 divisions of Kampala Metropolitan Area, according to Kampala Metropolitan Traffic Police Commander SSP Norman Musinga.

This comes after the condemnation of bad road users, especially boda boda cyclists in the city by President Yoweri Museveni while presiding over the National Resistance Movement (NRM) 32nd Liberation Day celebrations in Arua.  The President said they scare away foreign investors.

Musinga said more emphasis shall be put on major road junctions, roundabouts in Kampala where most cyclists lacking crash helmets, violating traffic lights, riding along pedestrian paths, carrying more than one passenger and riding while drunk, shall be arrested. 

The violators of traffic rules have been issued with penalties while others taken to court for prosecution.

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