Fine on Driving the car without number plate will be 100,000 shilling

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Rogers Kauma Nsereko, the Traffic Commandant, Kampala Metropolitan area says motorists who drive vehicles without number plates are aware that they are not supposed to be on the road but do it with impunity. A number plate serves as the identification name for your vehicle through which it can be traced.

To get a duplicate number plate, you have to publicise or run an advert in newspapers to announce the loss of your number plate before going to police to report. If you don’t get any responses to recover the advertised number plate, you go to police to clear the number plate as lost. From there, you go to Uganda Revenue Authority and report the missing number plate from where you are given permission to have a duplicate plate. According to Nsereko, this process, including acquiring the duplicate number plate, takes one to two weeks.

According to the Traffic and Road Safety Act, traffic police is mandated to impound a vehicle without number plates wherever it is seen. The challenge is that they cannot be in all places at all times. This is on top of being penalised Shs100,000 before you begin processing acquisition of duplicate plates. All this applies to motorcycles, tricycles, tractors and buses because they are considered motor vehicles under the Traffic and Road Safety Act.