Former Uganda Cranes captain, Dennis Onyango has flagged off a workforce of walkers led by journalist Joseph Beyanga, popularly often known as Joe Walker, for a 60 kilometre highway security stroll.
The 2024 Remembrance Relay Stroll organized in a relay format is aimed toward commemorating lives misplaced on Uganda’s roads and elevating consciousness in regards to the significance of highway security.
Whereas flagging off the walkers this morning on the Sheraton Lodge Kampala, Onyango emphasised the significance of highway security consciousness, noting that many lives are misplaced on the roads and calling for elevated vigilance from all highway customers.
“Once I received the invite, it was an honor, as a result of we lose lots of people on the highway. We must be vigilant on the highway. We should take into consideration the individual within the highway, whether or not it is a husband, a spouse, a child, as a result of all of us must dwell our lives, nevertheless it begins with us,” Onyango stated.
He burdened the significance of reminding individuals that each life issues, particularly in the course of the festive season when the frenzy and pleasure typically result in neglecting highway security.
“Street security consciousness is essential, as a result of we all know in the course of the festive season, all of us get a bit bit busy and neglect that life is essential and another person’s life can also be vital. So to make individuals conscious that everybody’s life is vital, it is essential, and for me, it offers me an honor to be a part of this journey.”
Joseph Beyanga, popularly often known as Joe Walker, acknowledged that the first goal of the stroll is to honor lives misplaced in highway crashes and to convey a powerful message in regards to the want for safer roads.
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“At present we’ve got a remembrance stroll whereby we’re remembering the individuals who have been misplaced in highway crashes but in addition ensuring we move on a message that certainly we’d like protected roads as a result of we all know what protected roads do. They save lives.” Joe walker stated.
He emphasised that by taking part within the stroll, they goal to set an instance of what it means to be a accountable pedestrian.
“And as we stroll, one of many issues I would really like us to do is we ought to be position fashions of what it means to be a pedestrian, and in addition take time to be careful what’s taking place on the highway. Are there stuff you assume could be improved to make our strolling expertise higher? So that is what we’re doing at present.”
He defined that the remembrance stroll is performed in a relay format, symbolizing shared duty. He urged all highway customers to take accountability and prioritize highway security.
“We aren’t getting down to stroll 60 kilometers alone, however we’re sharing the duty, and that tells you what it means if we did every one in every of us, what we’re imagined to do. What if the federal government did what they’re imagined to do, each driver did what they’re imagined to do, the pedestrian did what they’re imagined to do! How we will not we get protected roads! So at present, that is the message we’re placing out.”
The 2024 Remembrance Relay Stroll attracted a various group of members, together with highway security advocates, households of accident victims, and anxious residents.
In response to the police annual crime report for 2023, highway crashes claimed 4,806 lives, a mean of greater than 13 individuals day-after-day.
These accidents are largely attributed to reckless driving and careless driving.
