According to a new public transport policy, transport operators will only be issued with licences collectively as an assciation or cooperative as opposed to individuals.

In the current situation, individual bus owners are linceced to engage in public transport operations. However, such individual licences will soon be disolved.

The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (Rura) Director-general, Francois Gatarayiha notes, “Unless you are registered as a company, co-operative or an association, we won’t give you an operating licence.”

He explained that “ for a more efficient, competitive and transparent public transport, all companies go through a tendering process before they are allowed to operate on given routes. We believe this will help organise the sector, thus decongesting the city and other areas.”