{"id":49774,"date":"2023-12-21T14:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T14:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/prominent-journalist-calls-for-boda-boda-regulation-to-reduce-accidents"},"modified":"2023-12-21T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T18:15:00","slug":"prominent-journalist-calls-for-boda-boda-regulation-to-reduce-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/prominent-journalist-calls-for-boda-boda-regulation-to-reduce-accidents","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Journalist calls for boda-boda regulation to reduce accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>A prominent South Sudanese journalist has called for the regulation of boda-boda in Juba to reduce traffic accidents.<\/p>\n

John Tanza, the Managing Editor of the Voice of America South Sudan in Focus sounded the alarm on Tuesday during the requiem mass for the late Charlton Doki.<\/p>\n

The former VOA Coordinator and Editor at the Juba bureau died last Thursday in a traffic accident.<\/p>\n

Tanza says the government should act firmly to save South Sudanese from the Boda Boda menace.<\/p>\n

He called on the media industry to hold accountable the authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201d My only appeal to my colleagues in the media industry. Let us work and fight this animal called boda-boda. This Industry has killed more people in this city,\u201d said John Tanza.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a challenge to us to hold the people who are supposed to regulate this industry to account,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Doki was aboard a motorcycle when he fell off and later succumbed to fatal head injuries at Juba Teaching Hospital following a crash along Munuki-Bilpam road.<\/p>\n

In his remark, Tanza said many people have died due to boda-boda accidents in the city while citing Doki as the second journalist to have died after Radio Bakhita\u2019s news editor, Simon Tangun in 2013 due to a similar incident accident.<\/p>\n

\u201cCharlton is the second VOA journalist to die in the boda-boda accident, the first one was Simon, who was killed in Sherikaat in 2013,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the industry has to be regulated to do what he describes as clean businesses to reduce traffic accidents in Juba<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to do something to regulate this business. I\u2019m not saying they shouldn\u2019t be in business, but I\u2019m saying they should be regulated to do clean business, \u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, speaking on behalf of the government, Hellen Pita, a member of the national pension fund who is also a close relative of the late Doki, called for the enactment of laws to protect media practitioners, citing their lives at risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of the government, I think the government should put proper laws to protect the media people because the media is at risk in South Sudan. We need to tighten the law; my son is a journalist, but I also fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mrs Pita also appealed to media houses to provide safe transport means to journalists to avoid a repeat of what happened to the late Doki.<\/p>\n

Recently, the Inspector General of Police, General Atem Marol ordered the compulsory use of helmets by boda-boda riders and passengers in a bid to reduce fatalities.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear if the order is strictly being enforced.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. A prominent South Sudanese journalist has called for the regulation of boda-boda in Juba to reduce traffic accidents. John Tanza, the Managing Editor of the Voice of America South Sudan in Focus sounded the alarm on Tuesday during the requiem mass for the late Charlton Doki. 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