The ministry of works is set to secure motorized speed guns to cub the increasing cases of accident emanating from over speeding.
According to the Director for Traffic and Road Safety in Police, Dr Stephen Kasiima there is an acute inadequacy of speed guns needed to enforce road safety laws on the numerous highways across the country. He instead proposed that government invests in acquiring more vehicles for traffic operations.
Dr Kasiima said this on Thursday during the launch of the road safety inspection report for Northern Eastern road corridor, at Hotel Africana.
Now the state minister for works Aggrey Bagiire said that this shortfall is likely to be considered in this business cycle for the next year 2019- 2020.
He said that Speed guns are very expensive. One speed gun costs about US$15,000 without taxes.
The 20 speed guns owned by police currently can’t serve the whole country, government is planning to buy cars with speed guns that will be mobile to detect over speeding cars.