The Boda-Boda Boom - Part Two
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Alan Kasujja meets the start-ups in Kampala which are trying to turn the industry around by making it safer and enabling riders to increase their profit margins. He speaks to the Kampala City Authorities and the city's Traffic Police to find out whether it is possible to control this sprawling industry, and whether there are other means of employment for the riders. He also meets Kampala's only female boda-boda rider and explores the political pressures on this hugely lucrative but unregulated industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | For details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, go to BBCWorldServis.com slash podcasts. I'm Alam Kasugia on the BBC World Service. In Uganda's capital Kampala, a large crowd gathers on the street. |
| 0:27.0 | They are border-border motorcycle taxes, cheering for President Yori Museveni, whose national Resistance Movement is now entering its fifth term after 30 years in power. |
| 0:37.0 | Museveni has deliberately targeted BaudevRiders as a political constituency. He sees them as very |
| 0:46.0 | powerful voices in urban spaces because of their large numbers. They're a very |
| 0:51.9 | important voting block. But in the run up to the |
| 0:55.6 | recent hotly contested elections, it'd be as likely to see the riders |
| 0:59.8 | campaigning for the main opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change, under its leader, |
| 1:05.7 | Chisavess. |
| 1:06.7 | I heard them think that we have got fuel and money from President Museveni, but now for us |
| 1:15.8 | tomorrow we shall be escorting our candidate to be Sij. |
| 1:19.4 | And they did it. |
| 1:20.4 | Those people are saying they are just debating for their candidates. |
| 1:22.4 | That's Dr K Kiza Besiger, the ongoing |
| 1:25.4 | candidate for presidential... |
| 1:27.0 | With some 3 million border-border riders across the country, it's hardly surprising that |
| 1:32.1 | politicians in Uganda are keen to keep them on side. |
| 1:37.0 | In Makérere Chikoni, like many neighborhoods in Kampala, young people depend on border borders here to Anna |
| 1:42.1 | leaving. People here are very poor under young people depend on border borders here to honor living. |
| 1:43.0 | People here are very poor and the only way of living and they're surviving is to use border borders to ride and get money for their own sustainability. |
| 1:53.6 | Mugabe Peter is a local development worker. |
| 1:56.2 | Right now we are in the |
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