By Our Reporter
Uganda’s Ministry of Transport has initiated plans to review and amend the current Traffic and Road Safety Act, 1998. According to Aggrey Bagiire, the State Minister for Transport, through this amendment, the Government shall put in place and enforce a comprehensive driver and testing regime. This will include adopting groupings of vehicles for driving licenses that are harmonized in order to have a driving regime that tallies with other partner states in the EAC Region.
Bagiire who was launching the Professional Heavy Duty Driver training course in Kampala said last year 2016, about 3,503 persons were killed in road crashes while 10,981 were seriously injured. According to the Annual Traffic Police Report, human factors or road user behaviors accounted for 81% of the total road crashes.
“I am happy to learn that this Project has been tailored to the East African Community (EAC) Driver Training Curriculum for Heavy Goods Vehicles and Buses as a training guide as we await the EAC legal framework for its full implementation. This will ensure that our drivers are competitive and recognized within the region and possibly internationally. I further urge you to make use of the Training Manuals for medium and heavy goods vehicles and buses developed by my Ministry in line with the EAC Driver Training Curriculum for Heavy Goods Vehicles and Buses,
