Your job determines what you do all day, where you will live and what you see all day, your income, your life partner, when you will die, your social status and your personal happiness. James Reed.
In the 1990s, the NRA government compelled all bicycle owners in the Acholi subregion to pay for and acquire a number plate/registration number, embossed on the front rail of the bike.
I recall accompanying my father to Gulu Central Police Station to have his bike registered. He paid 900 shillings in crisp 50-shilling notes for the exercise.
The ridiculous rationale offered for this underworking was that bicycles were being used to support rebels, and this government needed to know who owned them.
The humiliation and extortion of the population left a deep scar on the social and economic fabric of the entire population. All this alongside the NRA's rape of men, burial of living humans at Bucororo, forceful displacements into squalid IDP camps.
The impact of these actions remains visible in the region's population. #LesfWeForget
Zoom in closely to see an example of one such bike i found at Laminladere area.
@justinenantale2 Let me tell you for a fact as of me right now I'm sick as in real being sick but can you imagine after telling some female friend of mine she had the audacity to tell me all will be well, but first send me money,
Yet I'm admitted, does that sound like common sense