Kampala — As taxi operators celebrate the reduction on monthly road user fees by President Museveni, urban councils across the country are losing billions of shillings in uncollected revenue from the taxi operators and parks as the presidential directive to stop daily collections from the taxi operators bites hard.
The monthly road user fees were reduced by President Museveni last Friday from Shs120,000 to Shs80,000 during a crisis meeting at State House, following uproar from taxi operators who protested the initial fees as 'exorbitant'.
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