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Govt Dragged To Court By Boda Boda Riders Over Unending Lockdown
Boda boda operators yesterday sued government for not allowing them resume passenger transport.
Through their association, the National Federation of Professional Cyclists Network (NFPC), the boda boda riders state that government is acting in a discriminatory manner by allowing other businesses, particularly other public transport service providers, to reopen and yet stop them from carrying passengers.
The lead petitioners are Mr Fred Kagaba, Mr Twaha Semakula, Mr Yassin Ssemujju and Mr Umar Jjuko Kateregga.
In the suit, they are seeking “a declaration that government refusing people engaged in the boda boda transport business to carry passengers is not acceptable or demonstrably justifiable in a free and democratic society and, therefore, an infringement and threat to their economic right to carry out their lawful occupation, trade which is contrary to the Constitution.”
The suit was filed in the High Court in Kampala.
The President has relaxed the Covid-19 lockdown and partially reopened public and private transport, allowing vehicles to carry half capacity passengers, but insisted the boda bodas can only cargo.
