Boda-boda riders in Moroto Municipality today took to the streets to protest the killings of their colleagues.

The protest stems from the daily killings that have so far claimed lives of 11 cyclists in the last nine days, along the Moroto-Kenya road.

The angry riders trotted recklessly on their bikes along the busy Lia Street, Kitale road and market access road in Camp Swahili, a commercial hub for Moroto town.

It’s alleged the leaders of the Moroto boda-boda association have been extorting money from reformed warriors, an issue that did not go well with the former armed members of the community.

To this, they resorted to killing cyclists who venture out of town for business along the Kenya road.

John Opio told journalists that the former warriors are unhappy with the cyclists from town, adding that the gunmen demanded answers from the chairman of the association why he was impounding their bikes and demanding for a hefty 56,000 shillings yet they were just riding bikes to town for buying goods for sale in the villages.

Opio further said the aggrieved gunmen were only killing riders from town not those going to town.

Another concerned cyclist Kabila Asuman intimated that according to hearsay, the gunmen had lined up to kill at least 100 people after the chairman Mohamed Lokidon reportedly grabbed their 100,000 shillings.

Meanwhile, police have detained the chairman of the association Lokidon Mohamed, Jimmy Lokuban-the secretary and Micheal Waniala, the secretary of the association at the central police station, Moroto.

Peter Mugabi, the district police commander told the errant boda-bodas that they would embark on the investigation to ascertain whether the association records  

He further appealed for calm from the members of the community as police looks for proof of records accountability.