Many thanks to my neighbours, Uganda has deployed undercover police on all highway bus routes including the Kampala-Kigali route.

If necessary they should even put plain cloth policemen in a measure aimed at reducing accidents arising from reckless driving.

The undercover police should do two things; they should be checking if a driver is over-speeding or overloading. But also they should check on compromise; the counter intelligence on our fellow police personnel because there is also that problem.

Hundreds of innocent lives have in the recent past claimed in numerous accidents especially along Kampala-Kigali particularly during end-of-year festive period.

In particular, buses belonging to Jaguar Company have been involved in fatal accidents in the last three consecutive years, in which tens of lives have perished.

In the latest accident, on December 18, a Jaguar bus swerved off the road at Nyahinga, Ntungamo district in Uganda, killing three people- one of them a Rwandan businesswoman and injuring 20 others.

 The main causes of accidents are over-speeding, reckless driving and driving under the influence of alcohol, and in the case of drivers of public services vehicles fatigue wears them out.

These drivers are overworked by the owners and operators of the buses. Money seems to be more valued than life

Kampala