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Uganda Law Society (ULS) offers free legal aid to Bobi highway Crash Victims

20 July 2026, 12:36 pm

The Radical New Bar logo of the Uganda Law Society.

By Emmanuel Mwaka

The Uganda Law Society (ULS) has launched an aggressive legal intervention following the devastating “Bobi highway tragedy” along the Gulu-Kampala highway, offering free legal aid to victims and bereaved families while launching a scathing attack on state negligence.

The announcement was made during a press conference in Gulu City on Friday by Mr. Egaru Emmanuel Omiat, a ULS council member representing lawyers in Northern Uganda, who presented a formal petition on behalf of ULS President Isaac Ssamakadde.

While expressing the society’s deepest condolences to the grieving families, the ULS laid the blame for the tragedy squarely at the feet of the state. The lawyers’ body accused the government of a “decades-long neglect of road safety,” asserting that systemic failures have consistently pushed human life to the bottom of national priorities.

In its formal address to the government, the ULS cited several critical failures contributing to the ongoing bloodbath on Ugandan roads as Systemic Corruption, Crumbling Infrastructure, Weak Enforcement and Broken Emergency Response

Mr Egaru Emmanuel Omiat on the systematic government failures.
Mr. Egaru Emmanuel Omiat ULS member representing lawyers from Northern Uganda at a press conference on Friday 17 July 2026 in Gulu city.

Mr Olanya Isaac Ronald a member of the section C3 committee under the Uganda law society also castigated the government for negligence of road crashes that could be avoided making Ugandan’s to pay it off with their lives

Mr. Olanya Isaac Ronal on the position of ULS.
Mr. Olanya Isaac Ronald a member of section C3 at the ULS at a press conference on Friday 17 July 2026 in Gulu city.

Mr Kilama Calvin who is also a member of section 3C of the ULS also added his sentiments to the government that our safeties rely on them though accident is sometime inevitable, but some can be avoided.

Mr.Kilama Calvin on the road safety and government negligence.
Mr Kilama Calvin a member of Section C3 of the ULS at a press briefing on Friday 17 July 2026 in Gulu city.

Mr. Egaru announced that the general public can immediately access free legal support through designated ULS legal aid clinics. Victims and affected families are urged to visit the regional clinics in Gulu and Masindi to initiate legal proceedings.

Gulu ULS clinic offices located in senior Quarters in Gulu city .

On 30 March 2026, the Uganda police Traffic directorate reported 5,383 people who died on the roads in 2025. That is 15 people per day. The toll keeps rising, 5,144 in 2024, 4,806 in 2023, and 4, 534 in 2022.