{"id":51451,"date":"2024-09-18T10:10:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/police-cautions-taxi-moto-operators-against-overloading\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:10:09","slug":"police-cautions-taxi-moto-operators-against-overloading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/police-cautions-taxi-moto-operators-against-overloading\/","title":{"rendered":"Police cautions taxi-moto operators against overloading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Superintendent of Police (SP) Emmanuel Kayigi, the spokesperson for the traffic department, said that the practice is common in taxi-moto operators transporting students, and foodstuff in markets.<\/p>\n

At least 24 motorcycles were impounded on Monday after they were found transporting up to four people, each. The majority passengers were students.<\/p>\n

Between July and August, 49 motorcycles were impounded for dangerous loading, 64 riders had no driver’s license, and 57 motorcycles had concealed or altered plate numbers. <\/p>\n

“These are serious road traffic violations committed intentionally and putting lives of people in danger. Imagine a motorcycle transporting four children, rushing to school in those pick hours! Risks are high and the motorcycle has insurance for the rider and one passenger only,” SP Kayigi observed.<\/p>\n

He added: “Some motorcycles transport large sacks of goods and in some cases they conceal number plates so as to avoid being detected and penalized.<\/p>\n

“We have impounded 194 motorcycles since July 25, for overloading luggage and passengers, riding without a driver’s license and those with altered or concealed plate numbers. These operations are continuous.”<\/p>\n

A motorcycle is licensed to carry only one passenger with both the rider and passenger wearing a helmet.<\/p>\n

Article 31 of Law n\u00b0 042\/2023 of 02\/08\/2023 governing land and waterways transport, provides that the operator of transport of people or goods on public road, uses a vehicle covered by insurance and complies with the terms and conditions stated in such insurance.<\/p>\n

SP Kayigi reminded motorcyclists, who alter or conceal number plates that it is a crime punishable by law.<\/p>\n

Under article 276 of the law determining offences and penalties in general, any person, who, with fraudulent intention, produces a false written document, causes to write false statements, or produces a conflicting declaration, is considered to have committed the offence of forgery.<\/p>\n

Upon conviction, he or she is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than five years but not more than seven years and a fine of between Frw3 million and Frw5 million, or one of these penalties. <\/p>\n

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The Traffic and Road Safety Department of the Rwanda National Police (RNP) has intensified operations against high-risk violations as part of the ongoing Gerayo Amahoro campaign. This measure follows observations that taxi-moto operators are transporting more than one passenger and carrying oversized luggage, which obstructs traffic flow and puts people’s lives at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000075027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000075027,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/moto.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/moto.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/moto.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/moto.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/moto.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/moto.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000075027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51451"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51451"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}