Fri, 08 Dec 2017 09:07:39 +0000 By Aaron Chiyanzo LUSAKA has become choked with police officers setting up road blocks throughout the city at peak hours in a bid to maxmise their collection of illegal fines from desperate motorists Commuter Rights Association of Zambia (CRAZ) president Aaron Kamuti has charged. Mr Kamuti charged that traffic police are taking advantage of motorists by mounting unnecessary roadblocks in order to extort money from them. And Mr Kamuti wondered why the city was still flooded with roadblocks when the minister of Home Affairs, Stephen Kampyongo had assured that there would be a reduction following the revocation of a threatened state of emergency. He told the Daily Nation that the traffic police in Lusaka was marred by corruption as they were busy extorting money from motorists with unnecessary roadblocks. Mr Kamuti also cited incompetence from the Zambia Police Service leadership for failing to control the escalating misuse of traffic […]
