About 4.8 billion shillings has so far been collected in the ongoing operations against traffic penalty defaulters.
Although the traffic Police headquarters at Nateete police station has not yet divulged the total collection, a senior traffic officer has revealed that by Wednesday last week they were short of less than 200 million shillings to hit five billion shillings collections.
The traffic officer added that Kampala metropolitan has almost 60 percent of the total collection from penalty defaulters attributing this to the biggest numbers of vehicles that flock the city every day as people go to work or go for shopping including trucks that offload goods every day.
Police through Senior Commissioner of Police, Fred Enanga, the national police spokesperson accompanied by traffic police spokesperson, ASP Faridah Nampiima, on August 19 announced that operations against penalty defaulters was targeting to collect eight billion shillings in unpaid tickets.
ASP Nampiima has reminded drivers whose vehicle number plates were captured by the Closed Circuit Television – CCTV cameras driving beyond the stipulated speed in some areas to clear the penalties by close of business today.ASP Nampiima speaking…
Failure to do so, Nampiima said such vehicles will be impounded as part of penalty defaulters starting with tomorrow. END.