While over the past months the police have done a good job in checking taxi-motors to ensure they are in order with their papers, the sight that greeted the citizens of Kigali this Friday was something different. In various places in the capital, scores of motorcycles were grounded, and some of the drivers sat in the back of police vehicles, ready to be taken away.
According to one traffic police officer stationed near the industrial zone in Gikondo, the crackdown comes in the context of KCC's directive for all taxi-motorcyclists to be registered before the end of the year, but which has been ignored by many of them. "We don't have all the necessary papers," admitted one driver, looking forlornly at his confiscated motor in Gikondo.
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