Insecurity on regional highways needs joint solutions

Truck drivers along the Central Corridor feel insecure after their colleagues were recently attacked by highway thugs, robbed of their property and killed. This is not the first attack on long-distance drivers; neither is it going to be last. As the region integrates, there is going to be a lot of commercial activity involving movement of people, goods and services. This will inevitably attract criminals who see opportunities for easy money in highway robbery. Quite often, travellers from Rwanda to Uganda have come under attack from highway robbers. The increasing frequency of these attacks is indeed due to growing commerce between the two countries with millions of Ugandan shillings and Rwandan Francs — both in cash and in goods on transit. All these attract thieves.