The call was made by the Southern Region Police Commander (RPC), CSP Francis Muheto during a meeting with representatives of commercial motorcyclists operating in Huye, held on Thursday, March 25.<\/p>\n
The meeting was also attended by the mayor of Huye, Ange Sebutege. <\/p>\n
It was organized and held in accordance with all COVID-19 prevention guidelines.<\/p>\n
The meeting with commercial motorcyclists emphasized compliance with the COVID-19 preventive measures, traffic rules and regulations to prevent road accidents and strengthening partnership to fight crimes.<\/p>\n
CSP Muheto cautioned the motorcyclists over traffic violations, which continue to cause fatal accidents.<\/p>\n
“You do not wake up in the morning to go on the road to die; you go there to work but when you use the road recklessly, the end results are fatal for you, your passenger and even other road users.<\/p>\n
You should change your attitude on road and respect road safety standards, reckless use of road means putting lives at high risk,” CSP Muheto said.<\/p>\n
The RPC further urged them never to ride when they drink, abide when traffic Police officers stop them, respect all COVID-19 prevention guidelines including wearing face mask by both the rider and passenger, sanitize hands to prevent the spread of the virus and practice social distancing at the parking stations.<\/p>\n
He reminded the that passengers must always wear a piece of cloth inside the helmet but warned them against using water as hand sanitizer or diluting alcohol-based hand sanitizer.<\/p>\n
CSP Muheto further cautioned the taxi-moto operators against facilitating criminality especially transporting smuggled goods, narcotic drugs or drug dealers and thieves.<\/p>\n
Scores of motorcyclists have been arrested transporting smuggled goods, narcotics and drug dealers and in other cases acting as spotters guiding drug traffickers on safer routes to avoid arrest.<\/p>\n
The Mayor of Huye, Ange Sebutege told tax-moto operators to comply with the government directives and actively participate in government community development programmes. <\/p>\n
He further encouraged them to operate in cooperatives and adopt the culture of saving under the government initiative called ‘Ejo Heza’.
\nThere are over 1400 taxi moto operators in Huye District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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