Police have this morning started an operation to crack down errant boda boda riders in Uganda’s capital, Kampala and other urban centres.
The riders who did not have reflector jackets and helmets had to surrender their motorcycles to police officers.
The police action follows a CCTV footage released last week highlighting graphic details of accidents involving boda-boda cyclists.
Last week, Farida Nampiima, the spokesperson of the Directorate of Traffic and Road Safety, said at least four people die daily in Kampala due to accidents involving boda-boda riders.
She thus said as police, they have come out to launch the festive season operations, in which they are going to target motorcycles.
By this morning several riders who were found not having the said requirements, their motorcycles were impounded, as in Mbarara city the police check was staged at Katete Bridge.
