Uganda road carnage is a classic national emergency

It is now routine, highly normalised, not shocking news anymore. Every single day, with perhaps very few exceptions, there is a deadly road crash, collision or another form of motor accident on any of Uganda’s major highways. 

The word highway is actually a misnomer for Uganda’s roads because what we call highways are only good as localised roads for shorter journeys, not long-distance travel connecting one region or end of the country to another. This fact alone, of lousy and narrowly constructed roads, is a major contributor to the disastrous accidents that claim dozens of…