By KT Reporter
The management of Nile Star Bus Company has revealed plans to adopt relay driving to curb the rampant road accidents involving its buses.
The development comes just four days after the bus company that operates from Kampala to the West Nile sub-region resumed operations after they were temporarily halted following a series of road crashes.
Amin Waish, the General Manager of Nile Star, says they intend to recruit more drivers to implement the relay driving strategy.
It is also intended to ensure that the drivers behind the wheel drive when they are not fatigued, hence ensuring the safety of the passengers on the road.
According to Waish the exchange point for the driver will be at Karuma in Kiryandongo district.
Meanwhile, Joseph Mobutu Itole, a caretaker, blamed the recent spate of accidents involving the buses on human error rather than superstition.
Last month, a tragic accident involving a Nile Star bus, a Planet bus, a lorry, and a land cruiser at Kitaleba village along Kampala- Gulu Highway in Kiryandongo claimed the lives of 43 people. Similarly, on November 5, 2025, another bus belonging to the company was involved in an accident near Karuma when the driver attempted to dodge a boda boda cyclist. Other road accidents involving different buses belonging to the company were reported on November 6 around Wobulenzi and Lodonga along the Koboko-Yumbe road.
According to the police annual crime report 2024, Uganda recorded a significant increase in road accidents, with a total of 25,107 incidents, marking a 6.4% rise compared to the previous year.
Nile Star Trade Link Limited, the operator of Nile Star Buses, launched operations in 2016 under a shareholder proprietorship of the late Twaha Agarile and his two children, Fortune Masudi and Peace Medina, as majority shareholders. The Bus Company now boasts of 27 buses plying the Kampala to West Nile route.
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