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Passengers Association Calls For Ban On Overloaded Buses, Kombis

9 months agoThu, 27 Jun 2024 08:01:10 GMT
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Passengers Association Calls For Ban On Overloaded Buses, Kombis

The Zimbabwe Passengers Association (ZPA) has urged the government to ban public transport operators who overload their vehicles saying this is contributing to the rise in fatal road accidents.

In a statement on Wednesday, ZPA secretary-general Paul Makiwa also slammed the “culture of impunity” in the transport industry.

He alleged that overloaded vehicles, unlicensed drivers and touts are allowed to operate with impunity, resulting in fatal road traffic accidents. Said Makiwa:

Our roads have become death traps. Our passengers are dying like flies and those who survive are left with permanent disabilities.

Passengers continue to lose their lives due to the negligence and incompetence of our ministers, who seem to be fast asleep at the wheel.

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Our evidence and results prove that their failure to perform their duties is leading to passenger genocide and permanent disabilities.

Makiwa accused the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Kazembe Kazembe and the Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Felix Tapiwa Mhona, of “sleeping on duty”. He said:

The responsible ministers of Transport and Home Affairs, Felix Mhona and Kazembe Kazembe, must be held accountable for their actions or rather, lack thereof.

Our ministers are sleeping on duty. They are comfortable in their cosy offices while the people they’re supposed to serve are dying on the roads.

Makiwa alleged that rampant corruption plagues the transport sector, allowing unroadworthy public service vehicles to operate unchecked across the country. He said:

Our people are being packed like sardines in these overloaded vehicles. What is worse is that there’s no accountability when accidents happen. No one is held responsible.

Yesterday, Mhona said the recent spate of fatal road traffic accidents, which have claimed over 20 lives, serves as a wake-up call for road users to strictly observe traffic laws.

He urged transporters to join industry associations that will be responsible for fostering self-regulation and compliance among its members through a standard code of conduct focused on road safety.

The call for action came in the wake of a spate of deadly road crashes across the country, which had claimed a total of 26 lives and left 56 others injured in recent days.

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14 Comments

Suarez · 9 months ago
Mhona is sleeping on duty
chapwititi · 9 months ago
zvipiko imi murimi mune vafana venyu vanoti garai 4x4 kubva kumas****.muri Zimbabwe passenger killers association.
chikwizo · 9 months ago
😭😭😭 zvinotangira pakuti ndoda kuita zvematongerwo enyika.Hurumende inotonga kana vanopikisa.Ndopanotanga hunhu rwoumbavha.Munonogadzira mitemo yokuti mubire haka kuvhoterayi.Vashandi ve Hurumende movatuma zve kuno bira povo nevaya vanoita kuti nyika ifambe.Nemitemo yenyu.Nemafambiro aita Technology. Mune chokwadi kuti varume nevakadzi vakuru kumuka kunodzingirirana nevanotengsa ndizvo nemapurisa kupemha kutyisa vanhu nemitemo kuti vatore mari kuvanhu.Vose kana vamunoti vakafunda ndizvozvo.Hatinyare hama dzangu kutendwa kumba kumusha nehumbavha.Kuita dzimota, midhuri madzimai.Mozodini??
chimukela · 9 months ago
Busses are overloaded always infact they are now goods buses from Beitbridge and wonder where is VID . The responsible authorities please don't wait until something terrible happens to act
Anonymous · 9 months ago
Nothing works in Zimbabwe except looting. We took our independence to early, we should have taken it in year 2000.Either we blame the roads, buses ministers, I only blame Zanu ndonga
Cde · 9 months ago
The gvnt must hve to look all sides, ma drivers ari kutenga ma provisional of which driving its not al abt kunanga road kuziva mitemo yeparoad kti usakonzere tsaona, 2017 boltcutter was involved in accident which killed 50 pple, bt ukatarisa paiva ne solid line why, madriver ngatizive maroad edu muno muzim they are very narrow
Anonymous · 9 months ago
I hope you mean that kombis shoud sit only 3 passengers per row and 4 at the back seat.
...,. · 9 months ago
overloaded buses pass through police roadblocks and are checked and left to proceed after secret talk between the police and the conductor. most, if not all the buses are owned by people who pay some form of protection fee to some organisation or to someone. there are not enough buses for the commuters, if it was not for kombis and mshikashika a lot of people would be stranded and sleeping in town or wherever they will be. what is needed is a national transport company tun by government that has no political interference. where are the Volvo, Dragon and other types of buses which zupco was said to be getting at the rate of 90 per week? as of the Volvos, I only see one which has no rear bumper and should be traveling the Harare Marondera route. the accidents are always affecting the poor and helpless people
𝙻𝖊𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖉 · 9 months ago
@Patz you deserve kokora you nailed it.
patz · 9 months ago
In case of overloading everyone- first to blame are the passengers themselves coz why do they board a PSV where all seats are occupied- standing passengers are not allowed, secondly we blame the police ( Kazembe Kazembe) where these PSV pass through numerous roadblocks and we also blame VID ( Mhona) where these PSV pass through VID checkpoints overloaded and without certificates of fitness. The reasons why these PSV are not arrested is because of sanctions. Of late I have learnt in Zimbabwe sanctions is actually corruption and the West who impose sanctions on us are actually Zimbabweans. If u know u know
· 9 months ago
@patz, you left out the prime cause - ZANU government- for the potholes interspersed with bits of tar and gravel
ghost · 9 months ago
while you still on that its also important to note that they have a do something about the roads
... · 9 months ago
.. and Financial Stress

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