Safeway Rightway Uganda Chapter a nonprofit organization comprised of several players in the private sector and registered under the ministry of internal affairs has invested US$ 300,000 in the first phase of a 3 year road safety initiative on the Northern corridor.
The investment which became effective February 3, 2014, has already seen the organization partner with the Uganda police to train them in the use of laser witness speed guns under an enforcement program which is leaning on sensitization more than the traditional enforcement of road safety rules.
The laser guns which will be placed in identified strategic points are made to record the speed of by passing traffic and are equipped with a camera which captures the details of vehicles. According to the organization’s Program Manager Barbara Mwanje while speaking on the sidelines of the handover ceremony, the northern corridor which stretches from Mombasa through Uganda to Rwanda, DRC and Burundi is plagued by road accidents and the introduction of the laser speed guns will go a long way in solving the problem.
“The campaign identified through baseline studies what the safety concerns are at each segment of the Northern corridor which then informed a specific action depending on the causes of the road crashes. We are focusing on the Ugandan segment of the corridor and in the first phase we will have this sensitization occur at specifically located sections of the Kampala-Busia corridor beginning at Namanve as we work towards Busia in a period of about 12 weeks,
