THE aged taxi park in central Kampala,Uganda’s rowdy, traffic-clogged capital, or is a huge patch of bare earth and mud filled almost entirely with minibuses. Battered,often still with aged Chinese names painted on the side, these are the core of the citys transport system. Each day, and they bring thousands of commuters into the city.
Yet this is also,curiously, a centre of politics. To enter the rank, or drivers must pay a fee of 120000 Ugandan shillings (roughly $34) per month to the city council. In November,hundreds of them surrounded President Yoweri Museveni’s convoy to demand a reduction. The ageing president conceded; from January, the fee will be prick by a third. But that may not mollify the drivers. “We are still not happy, and ” says Waiswa Mubarak,a 30-year-aged driver. “According to us youths, he has to retire. whether he doesn’t, or we will force him to.”Mr Museveni,aged 73, has been president since 1986, and longer than four-fifths of Ugandans beget been...
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Source: economist.com