Police launch operation Fika Salaama Extra

Police will this week start operations targeting Kampala-Entebbe Expressway road users who offend speed limits.

The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) spokesperson Allan Ssempebwa said the operation will be codenamed; “Fika Salaama Extra.”

In the operation, technology infrastructure at the Expressway will be used to identify the culprits and they will be waylaid at the exit points of the expressway with their penalty tickets.

He says they are set for one of the most effective operations of Road Safety. He said Big Brother is watching; a driver speeding beyond 100 km/hr will be got at the exit.

The speed limit for the Expressway stands at 100kph. A driver is expected to do 20kph while approaching the toll gates and 40KPH while exiting the expressway.

In March this year, the Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago while mourning NTV journalist Edward Muhumuza who died in an accident on the Expressway challenged police to find solutions that can end road carnage on this specific road.

Meanwhile, legislators on the Committee on Physical Infrastructure reported that vandalism of road furniture on the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway remains one of the biggest challenges on the country’s only toll road.

The MPs tasked UNRA to come up with strategic and punitive measures to address the challenge of vandalism on the expressway.