Polisi ya Uganda yatangaje ko abantu nibura 46 bapfuye ubwo amabisi abiri n’izindi modoka ebyiri zagonganiraga mu masaha ya kare yo ku wa Gatatu, ku muhanda uva Kampala ujya i Gulu, mu majyaruguru ya Uganda. Ni imwe mu mpanuka zikomeye cyane zibaye muri icyo gihugu mu myaka ya vuba.
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Mu itangazo rya mbere, polisi yari yatangaje ko abapfuye ari 63, ariko nyuma isohora irindi itangazo isobanura ko bamwe mu bari babonetse batitaba bari bakiri bazima, bityo umubare ukavugururwa ukagera kuri 46.
“Mu gihe impanuka yabaga, bamwe mu bahitanywe n’iyi mpanuka bari bagihumeka, bikaba bishoboka ko bamwe bashyizwe mu mubare w’abapfuye ku makosa,” ni ko itangazo rya polisi rivuga.
Iyi mpanuka yabaye mu ijoro ryo ku wa Kabiri rishyira ku wa Gatatu, saa sita z’ijoro, ubwo abashoferi b’amabisi abiri bari baturutse mu byerekezo bitandukanye bageragezaga kurenganya izindi modoka, bagahura bakagongana imbumbe. Polisi ivuga ko modoka enye zose zaje kwivanga muri iyo mpanuka.
“Umushoferi umwe yagerageje guhunga, ariko bimuviramo kugonga imbavu n’imbere y’indi modoka, bituma izindi nazo zisatira zigahura, zimwe zigahinduka inshuro nyinshi,” itangazo rikomeza.
Polisi yasabye abashoferi bose kwirinda umuvuduko n’ugusonganya nabi, byagaragaye ko ari bimwe mu byihutisha impanuka nyinshi muri Uganda.
Impanuka nk’izi zigaragara kenshi muri Uganda, igihugu gifite imihanda mito kandi idahagije. Polisi isanzwe ishinja abashoferi ubutwararike n’umuvuduko ukabije nk’imwe mu mpamvu nyamukuru.
Mu kwezi kwa munani gushize, umubisi wari utwaye abari bavuye mu muhango w’ishyingura muri Kenya warahirimye, ugwa mu mukingo, bituma abantu 25 bahasiga ubuzima abandi barakomereka.
Umuvugizi wa Croix-Rouge ya Uganda, Irene Nakasiita, yavuze ko umubare w’abapfuye muri iyi mpanuka ari mwinshi cyane, ndetse ko amashusho yafashwe atabashije kuyasangiza kubera uburyo yababaje cyane.
“Uburemere bw’iyi mpanuka burarenze. Abenshi basize amaraso menshi, abandi imitsi n’amaguru byavunitse nabi,” – Nakasiita.
Yongeyeho ko mu gihe impanuka zibera ku manywa, hari abantu benshi baza gutabara, ariko ijoro rikaba ribera imbogamizi kuko abenshi baba batari hafi aho. Abakomeretse ubu barimo kuvurirwa mu bitaro bya Leta biri hafi y’ahabereye impanuka.
Nk’uko imibare ya polisi ibigaragaza, mu 2024 abantu 5,144 bapfiriye mu mpanuka zo mu muhanda muri Uganda, barenze 4,806 bapfuye mu 2023 na 4,534 mu 2022 — bikagaragaza izamutse rikabije ry’impanuka mu myaka itatu ishize.
Raporo y’icyaha ya polisi y’umwaka ushize yerekanye ko gusonganya nabi no kwihuta cyane byihariye 44.5% by’impanuka zose zanditswe.
Umuhanga mu bijyanye n’umutekano wo mu muhanda, Joseph Beyanga, yavuze ko impanuka ya vuba iherutse kwerekana ko ubuyobozi n’abaturage bagifite urugendo rurerure mu kurwanya izi mpanuka. “Ibi bikorwa ni urwibutso rubabaje ko tugifite urugendo rurerure,” – Beyanga.
“Ku ruhande rwa Leta, hari ubura ry’uburyo bwo gukurikirana amategeko. Ubu ibiri kubera ku mihanda ni nko mu kavuyo.”
Beyanga, uzwi kandi nka Joe Walker, ategura ingendo ndende zo kugenda n’amaguru ziba zihuriyemo n’abantu benshi baturutse mu mpande zitandukanye za Uganda, hagamijwe gukangurira abantu kwirinda impanuka.
Yavuze ko mu kwezi gutaha azategura urugendo rwa kilometero 60 mu rwego rwo kwibuka ibihumbi byinshi by’abantu bapfuye cyangwa bakomeretse mu mpanuka mu myaka ishize.
