Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) have started hunting for temporary road licence violators.
A Temporary Road License (TRL) is a document issued to foreigners intending to come into Uganda with their foreign registered vehicles or Ugandans working abroad with valid work permits.
A clean up is currently ongoing around the country to net culprits misusing these regulations.
Last week, 11 high performance vehicles that included Jeeps, Hummers and BMW X6 were were impounded by our intelligence team.
With the Temporary Road License, a person is granted a maximum of 90 days and once they elapse, they are supposed to return to their countries.
However, some foreigners and Ugandans living out of the country commonly known as “ba-summer” violate the TRLs. They choose to stay and test their luck.
The impounded vehicles were got from; Kabalagala, Kololo, Ntinda, Munyonyo, Entebbe and Ggaba.
Most of these had foreign plates with expired TRLs]; Some had sold the vehicles to different individuals; and others had no documents.