Lira Regional Referral Hospital is taking care of seventeen survivors since Monday.
The incident has pierced Lango, and leaders (stakeholders) are meeting tomorrow to find a better solution.
Lira – January 12, 2022: Lira Urban Transporters SAACO (LUTS) has suspended the operations of trucks that ferry traders to daily markets across Lango and Acholi sub-regions.
The directive follows a fatal crash that occurred on Monday evening near Boroboro. Seven died on spot and two more on Tuesday.
The same crash has left scores injured and admitted at Lira Regional Referral Hospital.
Out of the nineteen admitted to Lira government hospital on Monday evening, two died on Tuesday.
The incident has pierced Lango, and leaders (stakeholders) are meeting tomorrow to find a better solution.
In a move expected to curb future crashes, Bernard Anyeko Matsanga, spokesperson of the transporters association (LUTS) said no truck would be allowed to load goods or carry traders to market on Thursday, January 13, pending a review meeting.
LUTS brings together all the drivers in the Lango sub-region.
According to Matsanga, they intend to organize a meeting soon with the Transport Licensing Board from Kampala.
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The proposed meeting is to, among others retool the drivers and guide them on traffic guidelines before they resume operation.
Our efforts to ascertain if the drivers will respect this suspension were futile after their chairperson Tom Adile did not pick repeated calls from Our Reporter.
However, on Wednesday, the Regional Traffic Officer of North Kyoga Mathias Okwir told TND News all truckers have been invited for a meeting on Thursday, January 13.
The meeting, he said will be attended by other stakeholders. Read more on it here.
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