CP Mujiji made the remarks on May 24, during a consultative meeting between RNP, Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) and owners or heads of transport companies.
Statistics indicate that fatalities caused by public services vehicles and trucks reduced to 40 per cent and 23 percent, respectively in the last four months compared to the same period last year.
The reduction, according the CP Mujiji, doesn’t call for celebrations calling for responsiveness to prevent loss of even a single life to recklessness of motorists.
“Most of the accidents are avoidable if drivers respected traffic rules such as regulating speed, use of speed governors, respecting pedestrian pathways including zebra crossing, and avoiding bad maneuvers,” CP Mujiji said.
He appealed to owners and managers of transport companies to take an upper hand to ensure the behavior and discipline of their drivers on roads, and take action against errand members.
He appealed to business leaders to prevail upon truck drivers and buses to change road usage behaviors and attitude towards proper driving.
The meeting was in the framework of the ongoing Police Week, with the second week focusing on promoting road safety.
“We have been sensitizing motorists but we believe that owners and managers also have a big responsibility to monitor their drivers,” he said.
“We want to see the positive impact, no life should be lost due to causes which we can collectively prevent,” CP Mujiji.
Asaba Katabarwa, the head of Transport regulation department at RURA noted that some truck drivers we found to deliberately tamper or fault speed governors, which are often found offline on the RURA tracking systems.
As business people, Katabarwa said, they have economic benefits if drivers adhere to traffic rules and other regulatory instruments, but also losses if they violate them coupled with loss of lives and destruction of people’s property.
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