Traders under the Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) have given the Government an ultimatum of one month to revisit the system of issuance of digital number plates or else they organize an industrial action because the system is not working well and full of bureaucracies. 

Speaking to journalists at the KACITA head offices in Kampala, the KACITA acting Chairperson Thaddeus Musoke Nagenda said many of their members dealing in the motor vehicle and motorcycle businesses are complaining that the system is not operating well and claiming that even motor vehicles and motors cycles which are stolen cannot be tracked as earlier promised by the Government.

Musoke adds that even the bureaucracy within the system is too much, making the digital number plates very expensive and unfriendly to buyers of new motor vehicles and motorcycles.

He has therefore announced that they have given the Government only one month to revisit the system and sensitize the public about it before rolling it out again to the general public.

The car and motorcycle dealers were represented at the press conference by several members who included Marvin Ayebare, the Publicity Secretary of the Associated Motor Dealers (AMD), an umbrella body of car dealers in the country.

By Charles Katabalwa

30 Jan 2025

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