Mbarara Taxi
drivers and Conductors Association on Monday intensified operations to arrest
illegal taxi Touts. The operation was
conducted with the help of Mbarara City enforcement team.
During the
operation, illegal taxi stages that include, Shell Ankole, Independence park
stage, Rubis petrol station stage among others were removed.
Jafari Lukwago, the Chairperson Mbarara United Taxi Drivers Association says
the operation to get rid of the illegal touts is meant to save learners and
other passengers from unscrupulous people who may want to con the learners or
steal their properties.
However, he
says that the passengers are frustrating the operation because they continue
using the illegal stages.
//Cue in: “kugiira ngu nahati…
Cue out:
…abo abo nibobaremise.”//
Lukwago
wants passengers to use only gazetted taxi parks and stages.
//Cue in:
“abashabazi aze omumwanya…
Cue out:
…park nituba tukakumanya.”//
Osbert
Kumumanya, a taxi driver says the illegal touts operating from the ungazetted
areas are failing their businesses because they are setting their own fares.
Richard Mugisha,
the acting Mbarara City Clerk says the fight against illegal touts follows a
security committee resolution in October last year to stop taxis and buses from
loading passengers outside the park. He says the touts aid in creating illegal stages which are against the
law.
