{"id":68007,"date":"2023-08-15T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=68007"},"modified":"2023-08-15T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:10:07","slug":"boda-riders-set-up-roadblocks-to-raise-condolence-money-for-departed-colleague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/boda-riders-set-up-roadblocks-to-raise-condolence-money-for-departed-colleague\/","title":{"rendered":"Boda riders set up roadblocks to raise condolence money for departed colleague"},"content":{"rendered":"

By David Awori<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boda boda riders in Busia Town mounted roadblocks to collect condolence fees for their colleague who was involved in a fatal accident in Tororo district on Monday.<\/p>\n

Using ropes, the commercial cyclists blocked roads and collected money from road users.<\/p>\n

Mr. Wilson Okiru, a boda boda rider, said the culture of mounting blockades was to ensure motorcycle riders and other road users pay some money as condolence fees for their departed colleagues.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started doing this early, targeting our fellow riders who are usually reluctant to pay condolence fees, but also other road users,\u201d Mr Okiru, who was collecting the condolence along Tira Road, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Sunday, Amisi Naku, one of our colleagues was involved in a fatal accident in Tororo, that is why we are here to collect condolence fees from well-wishers and members of the boda boda fraternity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mr Rajab Ekeya, another rider, said they were collecting money ranging from Shs500 to Shs10,000 from the road users and their colleagues at the various motorcycle stages.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs boda boda riders, we don\u2019t have enough money saved to cater for emergencies, especially death, that is why asked travelers and well-wishers to contribute towards our colleague\u2019s burial expenses,\u201d Mr Ekeya explained.<\/p>\n

The development, however, caused a huge traffic gridlock as vehicles formed long queues that left several road users complaining, while others resorted to using ungazetted routes to dodge paying the condolence fees.<\/p>\n

Mr Stanley Peter Mugeni, a resident of Dabani, who was reportedly delayed by over ten minutes on his way to the Tiira gold-mining area, said what the motorcycle riders did was \u201cin conflict with traffic regulations\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Saleh Wandera, another resident, said whereas soliciting for condolence fees was a good idea, mounting roadblocks along the road and \u201cholding travelers at ransom\u201d was bad, especially for a deceased who was unknown to the motorists.<\/p>\n

Mr Philip Malaba, a mechanic in Busia Town, said the boda boda riders have associations, stages, and offices from where they can meet and solicit such funds, rather than block roads and involve travelers.<\/p>\n

Mr Grace Kanuna, the Deputy Busia Resident District Commissioner (RDC), described the condolence-collection drive as \u201cillegal\u201d and \u201cnext to extortion\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, one of the residents, who preferred to only be identified as \u201cSsalongo\u201d, thinks the boda boda riders were right to collect condolence fees, especially from their colleagues.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cDeath is something that is never planned and is good that people stand with the family of the departed by paying condolence,\u201d Ssalongo said.<\/p>\n

Mr Jackson Ouma, another resident, said it was good to collect condolence fees along the road because many people have no time to stand with colleagues who are in dire need.<\/p>\n

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By David Awori Boda boda riders in Busia Town mounted roadblocks to collect condolence fees for their colleague who was involved in a fatal accident in Tororo district on Monday. Using ropes, the commercial cyclists blocked roads and collected money from road users. Mr. Wilson Okiru, a boda boda rider, said the culture of mounting blockades was to ensure motorcycle riders and other road users pay some money as condolence fees for their departed colleagues. \u201cWe started doing this early, targeting our fellow riders who are usually reluctant to pay condolence fees, but also other road users,\u201d Mr Okiru, who was collecting the condolence along Tira Road, said. \u201cOn Sunday, Amisi Naku, one of our colleagues was involved in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":68008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"F j, Y g:i a","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"3","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}