{"id":246767,"date":"2023-01-06T15:42:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T13:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/uganda-parliament-to-debate-ways-of-curbing-road-accidents?lang=en"},"modified":"2023-01-06T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T13:42:06","slug":"uganda-parliament-to-debate-ways-of-curbing-road-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/uganda-parliament-to-debate-ways-of-curbing-road-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Parliament to debate ways of curbing road accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Legislators will hold a comprehensive debate on how to curb the increasing road accidents which have claimed many lives.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In a sitting of the House on Friday, 06 January 2023, the Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa directed the Minister for Works and Transport to present a statement on the road accidents and what the enforcing agencies are doing to curb the carnage.<\/p>\n

Tayebwa cited the many accidents over the festive season which claimed many lives.<\/p>\n

Some of the people killed in the accidents included, the former Member of Parliament for Serere County, Patrick Okabe and his wife.<\/p>\n

Three members of the family of retired Supreme Court Justice, Paul Mugamba were also killed in an accident on the Kampala-Mityana road.<\/p>\n

Several people have also been killed in crashes involving public service vehicles with the latest being a bus that rammed into a stationary trailer on the Gulu highway near Kamudini on Thursday, 05 January 2023. The accident saw over 12 people killed and others seriously injured.  <\/p>\n

Tayebwa said these place the responsibility to scrutinize government plans to counter road carnage, on Parliament. “The minister will be required to present a comprehensive statement that will be subject to a thorough debate. We shall need broad measures taken by government to address road carnage,” Tayebwa who also lost a family member in a road accident, said.<\/p>\n

The Deputy Speaker was concerned that the accident reports in the media are all attributed to reckless driving which he said must be checked.<\/p>\n

He proposed the need to review the issuance of permits, a process he said has been compromised by those who obtain permits by bribery as opposed to the required proof of training.<\/p>\n

Relatedly, Tayebwa said the state of potholes on roads within Kampala Capital City was deplorable, and requested for accountability of the over US$200 million loan passed in the 10th Parliament to reconstruct 27 roads in the city.<\/p>\n

“I have observed a lot of potholes in Kampala, and the solution they are providing is patching them; we passed a loan to reconstruct most of the roads under Kampala Capital City Authority, it is now two years yet I see potholes everywhere,” Tayebwa said.<\/p>\n

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Parliament of the Republic of Uganda.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: Africa Newsroom – APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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