Bus drivers in Lusaka this morning staged a protest demanding an explanation from the Zambia Police on why traffic police officers constantly impound their buses for various purported traffic offences.
A check by Qfm at Kulima tower bus station and around Kafue roundabout found buses abandoned and commuters stranded thereby causing a heavy traffic jam along Kafue road.
Dozens of police office in riot gear have been deployed to the area to restore order.
The bus drivers have complained that their buses are impounded by traffic police officers on flimsy grounds and are made to pay exorbitant penalties, a situation they described as having a negative effect on their business.
They have therefore appealed to the police command to address the matter adding that the police have been a hindrance in their efforts of meeting their daily targets.
And Police spokesperson Elizabeth Kanjela has confirmed the development to Qfm in an interview.Ms. Kanjela says the police will not allow anarchy on the roads as this has contributed largely to road traffic accidents.
She says those contravening traffic rules will face the law.
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Problem with bus drivers is that they want to be lawless and careless but not be caught. The *****s want to stop and pick passengers anywhere they feel like stopping. The want to get drunk on their tujilijili, drive like maniacs but still not get caught. Every society needs rules and they need to be followed. Bus drivers want to behave like they own the roads. I say police do not be moved…the bastards need to learn how to behave…
‘contravening’………i remember that word from my days driving around in Zed. lol ‘contravening’….lol
This is quite interesting. Instead of motorists and other innocent road users protesting against the behaviour of minibus drivers loading passengers in the middle of the road especially along Lumumba and Freedom Way roads, it is the minibus drivers protesting. My only appeal to the Police Service is that they should ensure that law and order are maintained on our roads. These minibus drivers behave as though they smoke dagga. They have literally turned that part of Lumumba road between robots near Simoson Building and robots near Nyangu Filling Station into a bus stop.
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He was on radio this morining as I was driving to the office. SAD very very SAD indeed. Is it true that is Mr. Mazoka’s son?
If these buses are impounded every day how come they are still on the road? Still packing on the same spot where the police officer picked the bus the other day. The police are not serious in their work. You cant allow the lawlessness daily and say we are keeping order on the road. vatching the same bus for the same offence every day? That is stuopidity of the highest order.
Nichekeleko is the problem
Police are thieves, vifuna kudya chabe. These corrupt bustards. They know that mini buses have cash ready all the time. GRZ introduce ticketing system and the money be paid directly into a GRZ account. This is very easy, fines should be linked to a vehicle and updated daily on a central database. People who fail to pay fines, shouldn’t have their road taxes for their renewed. This way, one can run the whole year but time will come when they have to pay up. Ivi vimasilu vi kapola, vi kawalala. Yavinyokola njala.
Spot on Rockido!!!! It is about time we have a ticketing system and this should be extended to bus stations as well
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These minibus drivers want to get away with lawlessness? C’mon ZP, continue with the good work.
Kaponyas and taxi drivers hoped for anarchy with PF. In fact PF organised anarchy with kaponyas who started putting illegal structures everywhere. The disorder was visible in Lusaka but somebody realised it was not right and stopped it. The taxi drivers are doing the same to test the waters. And if denied, they will join the kaponyas for a big protest. Let us wait, it is coming. These kaponyas are a time bomb.
Problem is that the so called Police officers also have targets set by their superiors to cash in at the end of the day just like the bus drivers have too. Other wise the will not be put on that route. Some traffice officers have vowed that if they were transfered from the traffice department to other duties, they prefer to resign. :-?
These minibus drivers behave the way they do because they know that even if they contravene they will only pay K50,000 some of them have even paid in advance to some police officers. Â My advise to these Government is to transfer Traffic Police to the City Councils that is the money they are supposed to be using to clean up the towns. Â The police officer just enrich themselves the government does not benefit at all. Â Some of them are found even as late as 02:00 in the morning can you believe this? Madam IG put some sense into your senseless traffic officers they even have stations where they operate from. Â Others from other station cant come and patrol in that area. Â Its a shame the police service has gone to the dogs.
two wrongs dnt make a right. How can they air their grievance by unlawfuly behaving like hooligans causing such mayhem on one of the most busy roads in zambia. Protocol needs 2 b followed when having an industrial strike. They wil inturn face more charges 4 unruly behavior and further complain of unfair treatment.how ironic.
I support police for being strict on buses. Buses carry people as such there is need for the buses to be absolutely fit for road and additionaly bus driver need to abide by all the traffic rules, and not the anarchy we are subjected to on the road. Viva police we shall not allow lawlessness with anyone
…..the bus drivers are *****s. They honestly thought that we (PF) would allow anarchy?….
wrong,these guy are trying to earn a living, if the goverment can provide better mini buses, then you can have a word about those scrap buses on the road
EVERYTHING IS WRONG WITH COMMUTTER TRANSPORT IN ZAMBIA. 1. there’s no respect for time, 2 buses stop anywhere, 3 in this century we still have those death traps for buses, 4 a bus driver can just decide to go and fillup at a petrol station with a bus full of commutters/passengers, 5 conductors and drivers dont have any shred of respect for commutters/passenger, the list is endless. Once I was in Zambia on the mini bus with school kids on it. The bus driver and his conductor kept on going back and forth to pickup passengers- whenever they see someone they drive the bus backwards, if they see a perceived commutter…
…from #15.
on another road they detour from the bus route to go for that commutter even half a kilometer away. The school kids kept on say, “imwe ba conductor tisachedwa ku sukulu”. The words fail on i.d.i.o.t.s ears. I couldn’t believe how cruel these so called driver and conductor were to school-going kids. Surely, a lot needs to be done about commutter transport in zambia in terms of abolishing those death traps for proper commutter buses. At least introduce what is a London mini bus here to operate in zambia for commutting. Strictly, buses must be stopping at gazetted bus stops and no back and forth movements of buses or detours.
from#16. Buses must not go to a petrol station with passengers on it. Those bus numbers (not vehicle registration) must mean routes. I don’t the reason why those numbers are on buses if not for the convenience of commutters. They must be for identification of routes, otherwise they shouldn’t be displayed on the outside of the bus they just bring confusion for people from well organised commutter systems. Conductors and passengers should be sponsored to NIPA for short courses in human handling. Besides, they should be smart and not stink whole the way- more to the inconvinience of commutters.
from 17. Amongst other things that encourage visitors to London (UK) is their almost perfect and descent commutter transport systems. It isn’t rocket science they used to organise the system. They just think of what can make life easy for commutters and inact a law or set of laws for that. Commutter transport system is strictly controlled by the government (the government set standards) even though routes are operated privately. The govt tells operators which buses are fit for commutting and so on.
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#4 WE DON’T HAVE ROBOTS IN ZAMBIA THAT MAN OUR ROADS. ZAMBIA IS NOT THAT RICH TO INSTAL ROBOTS ON ROADS. WHAT WE HAVE ARE TRAFFIC LIGHTS. I AM PRETTY SURE EVEN IN THE US OF A THEY ARE NOT THERE, YET. BUT AM SURE THEY ARE THERE MOSTLY IN PRODUCTION LINES IN PLANTS/INDUSTRIES .
I agree these minibus and taxi drivers are pricks and are causing most of the accidents pa zed and their vehicles are crap and not fit to.be driven on our roads
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@Mzenga’s muzukulu, what are you implying? What has Mazoka’s son got to do with this topic? Way out of line here buddy!!!
Anyway, the situation on the roads in Zambia leaves a lot to be desired. The police are as corrupt as always, the unlicensed bus/taxi drivers’ syndrome is the norm. I mean, these drivers need to be educated period. I witnessed a bus driver drinking, yes drinking SHAKE SHAKE while driving passengers. I mean, you CAN NOT be drinking and driving passengers on those roads. The majority of them are not even properly licensed. So, the issue here allows for a two-fold solution on the government (police) and the bus “drivers”. Education and sensitization is the key! :)>-
These mini bus drivers are a nuisance on the roads. The police should continue to impound them until they learn to drive safely and avoid overloading in their defective buses.
Police dont allow those law breaking drivers over rule.LAWS must be abidded to.we are no in Somalia where there is no law.
This hiace buses should not be allowed on our roads instead introduce bigger and better buses even flash buses are finished an. Also very ugly buses to look at on our roads
Okey guys you have all failed to look at the real issue here.
These are signs of increasing oppression, there is more to come but importantly this is the beggining. These boys are generally not all that organised, but for them to pull up an effective protest, then the insult must be universal. If this were to happen in Chirundu or ITT the spark would ignite something.
If you arrive from USA or Europe you only see madness in the way bus driving is done in Zambia. Some of these things go to show who we are. We are very few people, a lot of copper and name it other minerals, farm lands and everything. But the way we manage ourselves leaves much to be desired. It a mass of confusion. If minister can bury K2.1 million in the ground what type of thinking does that show you? Bus driving rules need to change but it will take 50 years because we haven’t even done any better on our roads!
C’mon ba Zambia…who doent know that these buses are moving coffins… these checks by the police are for the benefit and safety of the Zambians themselves!!
good on the police. i don’t know what took them so long to open their eyes and sort of those notorious bus and taxi drivers most of whom should not even be driving on the roads because they are reckless and endanger other road users. let them protest..common sense will later kick in and thats when they will know that no one is above the law.
Way to go bus drivers — the police are the most corrupt and they need to be shown that Zambia does not belong to them. Protest as often as crooked cops harass you.
This is our country and only we can shape our future.
This is a good job for Michael Sata.When he was Governor of Lusaka he would handle such in the language they understand as ngwangwazi’s and kabova’s.Cant the king cobra spike now?GOD BLESS ZAMBIA.
@ Panyo Zulu, Ishina ububi but i agree with u this Cops are just interested in tuma 50 pin they are bribed with and they let the lawless chaps go, only to grab them again the other day, God help us. Ba police have some integrity pls twapapata….
Thanks cops these bus drivers and taxi drivers need to know our roads need to be safe.
Astonishing to say the least that the Law breaker should protest about being arrested for breaking the law. I have seen the minibus drivers break the law, and I heard alot about what the police do. how many people should die, hoe many?????
The Police should not stop even if the bus drivers park their buses.
Madam IG please serve us from these iliterates. Seriously please, please. Beat the hell out of minibus drivers.
Muinibus drivers behave like wild animals. What type of animals are these who have no respect for human life??? Even along Great East Road at the Acades bus stop, they park right on the road, offload and start loading. Bushe finama nshifi???????
The GRZ should help how solve some of these issues minibus drivers and the street venders. They are the problem in every city in Zambia.
Its a viscious cycle,am told some of them even get their Driver’s licences long before they even learn to drive, how bad is that!!? I visited home last year August. This Bus driver stops on the road side just after independence stadium and picks up friend who takes a sit some where near the Gear lever and, amazingly, they chat all the way to Ndola!! Shocking!!. And no one could tell him that it was wrong for him to drive a bus load of people while Chatting to a friend. As far as i could see, he was the “Almighty bus driver”, no one could touch him. If the powers that be ever show any sign of siding with these mini bus drivers, that will be the end , mass Chaos everywhere! If the state machinery on the other hand fixes this,there is enough revenue here to get us out of debt. Think about…