Fuel trucks in Uganda have history of catching fire. When you Google Uganda fuel trucks catching fine, you will not fail to get news that fuel trucks caught fire in Jinja, Kampala, Jinja road, Mukono and Masaka road…

For example a Kampala-bound fuel truck on Friday morning caught fire after it lost control and rammed into a house at Kitega in Lugazi, still on Kampala Jinja road. Several people were injured and one person was confirmed dead.

The deceased was identified as Mohammed Sekeba, who was a security operative at attached at Special Investigation Unit in Kireka but he was camouflaging as a boda boda cyclist.

Transport experts in Uganda told us that Uganda has history of fuel trucks accidents because of poor roads network in Uganda. The donors have tried a lot to construct roads for this country but due to corruption in Uganda government, much of the money is miss used by government officials leading to doing shoddy work.

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