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Invest in Public Transport to Reduce Road Carnage – MPs

by Our Reporter
February 17, 2023
Invest in Public Transport to Reduce Road Carnage – MPs

Hon. Naome Kabasharira (NRM, Rushenyi) speaks during a meeting between the Parliamentary Forum on Road Safety and Centre for Policy Analysis held at Parliament on Wednesday 15 February 2023

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Members of Parliament have called for massive investment in public transport in order to reduce road carnage.

According to the legislators, all countries that have invested heavily in public road infrastructure have reduced pressure on public roads, thus curbing road accidents.

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This was during a meeting held between members of the Parliamentary Forum on Road Safety and the Civil Society Group Centre for Policy Analysis (CEPA) at Parliament on Wednesday 15 February 2023.

“We have clear regulations that bar boda bodas from carrying children below 12 years. A boda boda is supposed to carry one passenger, but aren’t we seeing some carrying five passengers?” Hon Sarah Opendi (NRM, Tororo District) said.

“The truth is that we have not prioritised road safety in this country, we only make noise when somebody dear has died, but after burying, we forget,” she added.

Hon Robert Kasolo (NRM, Iki-Iki County) blamed key stakeholders for failing to prioritise road safety in Uganda.

“We need to throw in our weight and say enough is enough, this road safety issue must be handled like any other epidemic. We must rise up and say considering the numbers that perish on the roads, we must handle this issue as an epidemic,” Hon Kasolo said, adding that road safety has been stifled by the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development.

“Parliament has internalized the issue of road safety but the Ministry of Finance does not understand it completely. They have allocated road safety only Shs600 million…You really see this is peanuts and even what has been allocated in the budget may not even be released,” he said.

Napak Woman MP Hon Faith Nakut said that if the government had established a robust public transport system, citizens would not be risking their lives in mechanically-impaired vehicles and risky boda bodas.

Quoting a recent survey, Godfrey Mwesigye, Manager of Research and Documentation at CEPA, said on average, 45-70 victims of road accidents are received at Mulago National Referral Hospital on a daily basis.

The 2022 Annual Crime Report by Uganda Police Force reported a 42 percent increase in the number of crashes from 12,249 in 2020 to 17,443 in 2021.

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