In many homes of Kampala, bodabodas have come to play an important role whereby they have gone beyond a ride to work to emergency services, security, delivery couriers and also means that represent the entrepreneurial spirit of Uganda at large.
It’s upon this background that Prof. Naiga Gudla the founder of Gudi leisure farm has launched an initiative to celebrate these heroes who are on the road daily to offer services.
Dubbed My Boda My Pride, this initiative is to celebrate over 40,000 youth agro-preneur transporters that Gudie farm works with in Kampala metropolitan and other parts of the country.
“On this occasion that will happen on December 3, we are going to have a number of activities where we shall recognize these transporters, remember those that have lost their lives while at work and also launch an educational music album from one of our own talking about the business,” Prof. Naiga explained.
This event that will happen at the farm premises will also have sessions of different speakers who will give an insight of the transport system and the plight of the bodaboda business.
Prof. Naiga also highlighted that the farm management will hold a tour of this initiative in each of the 31 districts they operate in and they expect officials from the transport industry to grace this initiative.
Lately, KCCA has an estimation of 150,000 bodaboda riders who operate from the city but only 42,000 have been registered.
Medi Mwavu the chairman of bodaboda riders in Kira municipality where the farm is located urged all operators to come and attend this event.
Ali Wavamuno a bodaboda rider and musician called upon fellow riders to come and support his launch because he packaged the right message about their safety on the road.
According to statistics from the Traffic Police Directorate, there have been up to 37,000 motorcycle accidents recorded since June 2023 an indication of havoc to all road users. Statistics further indicated that more than 4,000 lives were lost in 2022 due to these accidents.