Reciept book: Bus touts part 3

Riding along in the backwoods of Uganda in a mini-bus, the bus boy handed me his record book to hold so he could help a few passengers alight. Out of curiosity I started looking through it noticing that a detailed record was kept for each journey. Beneath the list of money received from passengers were two further headings traffic and call boys.
When I inquired, the bus boy explained to me that traffic meant the traffic police, and the figure was the total amount of bribes paid to traffic police for each journey. Call boys meant the touts, locals who would round up passengers in town or at the bus station before the bus was ready to head off, the bus boy explained that the touts received 4000 Ugandan shillings (US$2) when they filled the minibus - around 15 to 20 passengers. (We were paying about $5 for a four hour journey, which the mini-bus would make two per day, passenger numbers willing)
When I saw the mundane way that these two items are recorded it gives them legitimacy, they become an accepted, albeit begrudgingly, cost of doing business. Despite neither of them providing any real benefit: traffic police let the most unsafe and overloaded vehicles fly pass as long as long as they pay their tribute and touts collect people who arrive at the bus station anyway, operators seem to accept them as a cost of doing business (and providing a real service) and the wheel just keeps turning - one wonders why anyone bothers !!