Uganda: Digital Number Plate Delays Lock Up Billions As Businesses, Motorists Count Losses
Uganda's transition to digital number plates is increasingly becoming an economic bottleneck, with months-long delays in issuing registration plates leaving thousands of vehicles and motorcycles stranded, disrupting businesses, delaying deliveries and locking up billions of shillings in government revenue. Vehicle dealers, importers and clearing agents say the persistent delays have slowed business operations, tied up working capital and left customers waiting indefinitely despite having paid all the required registration fees. At Kainu Investments, more than 200 tricycles remain parked in the company's yard awaiting digital number plates.
- ▪Uganda's transition to digital number plates is increasingly becoming an economic bottleneck, with months-long delays in issuing registration plates leaving thousands of vehicles and motorcycles stranded, disrupting businesses, delaying del
- ▪Vehicle dealers, importers and clearing agents say the persistent delays have slowed business operations, tied up working capital and left customers waiting indefinitely despite having paid all the required registration fees.
- ▪At Kainu Investments, more than 200 tricycles remain parked in the company's yard awaiting digital number plates.
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Uganda's transition to digital number plates is increasingly becoming an economic bottleneck, with months-long delays in issuing registration plates leaving thousands of vehicles and motorcycles stranded, disrupting businesses, delaying deliveries and locking up billions of shillings in government revenue. Vehicle dealers, importers and clearing agents say the persistent delays have slowed business operations, tied up working capital and left customers waiting indefinitely despite having paid all the required registration fees. At Kainu Investments, more than 200 tricycles remain parked in the company's yard awaiting digital number plates. Of these, 100 have already been fully paid for by customers but cannot be handed over because the registration process has not been completed.
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