Uganda: Road Rage Problems Are Microcosm Of Corrupt Museveni Regime

By Zacharia Kanyonyozi Photos: YouTube Screenshots The Traffic Police, Field Force Unit-FFU, and the Military Police are jointly working together to stop “errant motorists driving with impunity.” This joint task force has been at it since 2022, when traffic police spokesperson Faridah Nampiima informed the watching Ugandan public of the increased cases of impunity by motorists on the roads. “We have started a joint operation involving the traffic police, Field Force Unit, and military police to crack down on those driving with impunity on roads, the operation will majorly focus on peak hours in the morning and evening. We want sanity to return to the roads,” Nampiima said in 2022. In spite of this, or possibly because of this, according to the statistics released on 11 December 2023 by the Police Traffic and Road Safety Directorate, there were a total of 412 road crashes from December 3 to December 9, 2023, with 390 people affected. Police has not released the full number of accidents on our roads so far in 2024, but if 2022 is anything to go by; it must be scary. To be sure, the country registered 20, 394 cases of road accidents in 2022 compared to 17,443...