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The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has encouraged government to revise traffic fees as indicated by Chief Government Spokesperson Chishimba Kambwili.
YALI Governance Advisor Isaac Mwanza in a statement says it will be extremely saddening to see the PF government revise these exorbitant fees in 2016 as a campaign tool targeting the motoring public especially bus drivers and the youth who supported the PF ascendancy to power in 2011.
Mr. Mwanza has challenged government to state clearly when these revisions will be done as opposed to giving blank statement that has no timeline.
Mr. Mwanza hopes that the remarks by the Minister will not be another political rhetoric by the Patriotic Front Government in the same manner the PF have given assurances in the past on important national issues.
He says while his organization is happy with the assurance from Mr. Kambwili on Government’s commitment to revise traffic fines, he also believes that it is important for Government to engage with the motoring public when revising the traffic fees.
Mr. Mwanza has since reminded Government that citizens can only pay what they get and there is no doubt that the people’s wage equivalence on relative terms, as aggregate for average population in Zambian, is very low where most bus drivers get paid less than a dollar per hour as compared to other countries with high traffic fees.