Parliament has observed a moment of silence in respect to all those lost their relatives in road accidents during the Easter holiday.
This comes at the time when the traffic police spokesperson, APS Faridah Nampiima released a report this week indicating that 37 people died in road accidents and 76 sustained serious injuries.
One of the terrible accidents that happened during the Easter holiday is where nine family members perished when a Toyota Alphard they were traveling in collided with a fuel truck in Lwengo-Kyoja Trading Centre along the Masaka-Mbarara highway when the speeding Toyota Alphard registration number UBL 314C failed to keep left and ended up ramming into fuel truck registration no SSD 327S/SSD 137Q.
It’s from this that the deputy speaker Thomas Tayebwa cautioned road users to be more careful and avoid speed on roads.
Additionally, the deputy speaker Tayebwa has called on Uganda Wildlife Authority-UWA to find measures of protecting Ugandans living around game parks and reserves from wild animals that destroy their properties.
He says that UWA should expedite the compensation process to the people who have lost their properties especially crops to enable the successful conservation of wildlife than causing Human-Animal conflict.
