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…
Uganda seeks to change Road Safety Law

One of the Driver Instructors directing a student on how to drive a Heavy Duty Truck during a demonstration in Lugogo, Kampala.