Gerayo Amahoro, a continuous road safety campaign to drive behavioral change to make roads safer for all, continued on Thursday, August 22, with the main focus on taxi-moto operators.
Across different roads in the City of Kigali and other parts of the country, Police officers engaged commercial motorcyclists on practices and behaviors that made them safe on the road.
With more than 45, 000 taxi-moto operators in Kigali alone, and this category of road users being among the leading cause or those involved in road accidents; Gerayo Amahoro is seen as one of the channels to influence safer road usage, and to instill the culture of road safety contrary to the current practice of respecting road safety by law.
Speeding, using a phone while riding, reckless maneuvers and overloading are some of the dangerous road safety violations that the Gerayo Amahoro campaign strives to break among commercial motorcyclists.
It also reinforces compulsory wearing of helmets, both the rider and passenger; having all the required road traffic related documents like a driver’s license, transport authorization permit and insurance; respecting traffic signs, respecting pedestrian walkways, including Zebra Crossing. (End)