Fri, 03 Mar 2017 11:07:42 +0000 By MARY KACHEPA GARAGE owners on Mukwa Road in Lusaka’s heavy industrial area have complained that traffic police officers are reportedly ruining their business by invading their work places looking for faulty cars parked for repairs. But police spokesperson Esther Katongo defended the police action and said that as long as the officers found a vehicle that was not roadworthy they were within the law to impound it to protect the public before it went on the road. “It is not that we have stopped with traffic law operations, even at a bus station when the traffic police officers find a vehicle that is not roadworthy they can impound it. “After the minister said that we should not inconvenience the travelling public by mounting roadblocks, we decided to find other ways of insuring that the vehicles on the roads are in good condition,” she said. But one […]
