The Traffic Police Office in Torit town says it has registered about four cases of road accidents just within a week.
According to Traffic Police Crime Officer, Second Lieutenant Adam Satiro, it is children under eighteen years who are involved in such accidents, Radio Emmanuel reported.
He adds that because of the rehabilitated roads within Torit town, car drivers including motorcyclists are now driving recklessly along the road causing many accidents due to over speeding.
“Within this week we had registered four cases of accidents, from the four accidents, two were serious parts of the bodies got broken but the two accidents were not much and now those people are in the hospital. We talked with the Boda-boda riders, the problem of these accidents are due to over speeding within town due to the new road constructed, people found the road is smooth, they over ride. The two accidents were caused by children under eighteen one of which is ten years and the other one is fourteen years, they were riding bike which made them cause accident and they cause problems on them, all these happened in the due cause of last week”, Satiro says.
The Traffic Police Crime Officer blames parents for allowing their children to ride motorcycles yet some of them are underage.
He warns that any parent who gives a child a motorbike will be accountable for every problem caused by the child.
Second Lieutenant Satiro urges parents to send children to school instead of riding Boda-boda.
“We are taking serious action all these because of the children riding motor bikes, now we have arrested some of them, one of them is arrested and the case is forwarded to the court to judge, the problem is the elderly people, parents of the children they give bikes to the children who are under age to help the family of which is not right. Instead you need to send the child to the school to help you in the future, a child under eighteen working as a boda-boda. My message to those one using boda-boda, do not accept to be carried by a child to avoid problem, because the child is too young. Any elderly person who give a child motor bike will be responsible”, he warns.
Last year the former Police Spokesperson Major Justin Cleophas Takuru cautioned road users to be careful to avoid accidents since there are still no road signs in place.