Moto taxi operators are decrying the ongoing Traffic Police operation of impounding Motorcycles saying it’s now a routine harassment and that the issue should be quickly addressed.
Among the complainants, one Nsengiyumva operating in Kimironko told igihe.com that: “Recently a police lorry came to the place where we park our motorcycles during lunch time and loaded all bikes that were parked there without any explainations.
“Corps nowadays don’t ask for anything like requirements but just take the motorbikes.They should tell us if they don’t want us to operate in town then we go to village and work from there,” He lamented.
“These days we operate via shortcuts because whether we have requirements or not when police finds you then know that your Motorbike shall be taken,” Said Jean Claude Habimana an operater at Nyarutarama.
Daniel Ngarambe, the president of Taxi-Moto Operators Association (ATAMIMORWA) in the zone of Remera said that the main point of confiscating them has resulted from the reallocations of parking yards.
“There is communication breakdown on the new parking yard allocations and most of motor taxi men are not aware,” said Ngarambe.
He however explained that Starting from today evening the association will move to the field as leaders and help motor taxi operators on the new parking yard allocations.
According to Chief Supt Célestin Twahirwa, the head Traffic Police, the operation is to reduce road accidents that have been a result of Motor taxis and that most of them do not have all the requirements.
He added that others being confiscated are those that are not under the umbrella of Taxi-Motor taxi associations.
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