The National Road Fund Agency (NRFA) has set a target of collecting K 1 billion Kwacha toll fees this year.
NRFA Public Relations Manager (1A) Alphonsius Hamachila says in 2017 the agency collected K667million.
Mr. Hamachila pointed out that as a Lead agency in the implementation of phase two of the National Road Tolling Programme (NRTP), the institution is currently operating 10 tall stations across the country.
He reiterated the agency’s target to construct 40 tolling stations in all the 10 provinces by the end of 2018.
Mr. Hamachila, hailed the road users for their compliance in paying road tolls which he said is an engine to the successes recorded by the Agency.
Can we now see road repairs and upgrades? Most roads have been washed so with that kind of money we don’t expect explanations but action.
Even if you collect 100 Billion, if the spending is reckless and uncontrolled, its a waste of time, you might as well NOT collect.
#NodisciplineNogain
They think a toll charge is some sort of innovative tax they have invented yet they are simply block exiting roads with these things.
I no longer desire to continue paying toll fees because the very roads where the toll gates are located are in a mess. Its kind of like ZNBseee… I have been paying TV levy for so many years but the station keeps getting worse!
How can you target to collect a figure from a Toll Gate…its like setting up hidden speed cameras on a side of the road and stating we are targeting to collect XXX million dollars…its wrong to simply block a road with a toll gate; a toll road is an alternative faster route that’s why its called a toll. Why should motorists be charged twice?
Jay Jay seems to be leading a life of misery and frustration. I mean, where do you find the time to comment on every article even responding to your own articles. These are the chaps who thought going abroad would give them greater opportunities than back home only to hit a brick wall. Palast nomba it’s comments 24/7 on Lusaka times. Kkkkkkkkkkk Lazy Scumbag
As much as we appreciate good roads just as well each and every tollgate should have at list two Ambulances And security police car?
You have been making headlines on how much you have collected and still collecting but NO mention of how the collected funds gets spent! I wonder why you even continue making these creaming statements of your collections and yet when constructing any road or repairing one, its one loan after the other!
Creating Toll gates merely as an easy way of raising revenue that is not even constructively accounted for, simply squeezes the already over taxed motorists and has a rippling household economic effect. There must be a rationale and justification for having so many money collection points for a country with so few major road highways/outlets – let alone population of drivers. Even a country like the UK with four times the population, more vehicles and hundreds more motorways has much fewer toll gates. Is this a case of having run out of more productive ways of raising money for services? Its like the mobile phone tax for garbage collection proposed in Lusaka.
I don’t see how a PR guy worth his salt should stand on the highest tower celebrating the intensification of a tax that is almost choking motorists to death.
Pocket money for the corrupt invoice doctoring P.F officials to put in their back pockets, & personal accounts.
They will then promptly call for National prayers under the misguided guidance of Godfridah, & declare a five day holiday, when the economy falters from their State sanctioned theft – a Man made problem all the way!
Anyway Zambia deserve these leeches, & the poverty offshoots, as they vote for these dishonest boneheaded goons!
Just how do they manage to do that. Increase toll charges or what? How do you jump from K667m to K1billion overnight from the same number of motorists. Its like doing the same thing and expecting different results. Just how? These guys are just crooks or just to be seen saying something.
Its a real disaster.
There will be more tollgates opening up this year