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EXPOSED: Corrupt RTSA Officers Have Agents Who Lure Clients to Be Served Quickly
Dear Editor,
Please hide my name.
I was very disappointed with the with the way RATSA officers behave. They don’t seem to be changing with the times.
I went to see how they test would be drivers on their yard. Its saddened me to learn that they actually fail people deliberately by asking things that do not make sense at all. One example is that they ask the people to use hand signs (this is where one takes out the hand through the window of the car to signal where they are going or intend to do). I don’t have a problem with this but the way its abused. This system is actually discouraged by RATSA itself. They will arrest you if they find you doing that on the road saying you are DRIVING A VEHICLE THAT IS NOT ROAD WORTH. Or worse still, i have not seen any driver, including the police and RATSA officer leading by example to use the had signals whilst they drive. The question therefore is why ask someone to do what you yourself is or cant do?
Well after serious consideration, i think i came up with the answer – CORRUPTION
What the RATSA officers want is to deliberately fail people so that they can use their back door friends (agents) to lure people pay money to buy the licenses and etc. Some officer have become stinking rick through these schemes. Try to disguise yourself as if you are looking for a license and you will see these agents who will come to you immediately a RATSA Officer fails you the driving test.
CAN THE LAW ENFORCING OFFICER AND RATSA MANAGEMENT FOLLOW UP THIS ISSUE IF THE COUNTRY IS TO MOVE FORWARD.
Concerned Patriotic Zambian
Posted by Editor
on April 25, 2013. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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Afreekans
April 25, 2013 at 3:51 am
Zambia the real africa!!
zimandola
April 25, 2013 at 6:04 am
You are right! May the power that be investigate and the would offenders face law.
the rock
April 25, 2013 at 6:14 am
Then we expect our country 2 b accident free when the people goverment has entrusted are busy selling the much needed drivers licences shame . and ba pungwa bafikala watch out 200 metres away
kakolwe
April 25, 2013 at 6:52 am
Iwe, read the highway code? U’re obligated to know hand signals in case your autoelectrics fail U. Not that U drive Icisasa deliberately!
Rupiah
April 25, 2013 at 9:34 am
IWE KAKOLWE, YOU THINK IF YOU WENT TO THE ROAD BLOCK DRIVING A CAR WITH FAILED ELECTRICAL AND USING HAND SIGNS THEY WILL TOLERATE YOU. THEY WILL GET YOU AND DEMAND FOR MORE MONEY WITH CASES SUCH AS DRIVING A CAR THAT IS NOT ROAD WORTHY.
Mundia M
April 25, 2013 at 2:38 pm
Rupiah, I agree with you. The highway code itself needs to be revised to be in tandem with current world trends.
We all know very well that RTSA offices are extremely corrupt and they live way beyond their means and subsequent governments have given this important issue a blind eye.
It is extremely inconveniencing that these corrupt self serving offices are allowed to harass people who honestly try to obtain driving licenses.
juzi-j
April 25, 2013 at 6:56 am
You must have failed your driving test, your English tests in school, and your spelling tests
kakolwe
April 25, 2013 at 7:01 am
Whats more, its U ‘impatient’ people who let these cops & the rest to be corupt. You are in too much of a hurry for nothing @banks, roads etc
lupupa j
April 25, 2013 at 7:42 am
Installation of surveillance cameras both in and outside may help. Else where it works. Let us use our mobile phones to capture these scenes if suspicious. In latest bombing in Boston marathon(USA) it helped to identify suspects.
kc
April 25, 2013 at 8:09 am
This is true. I have heard of this @ rtsa chingola. They have a chap who collects cash on their behalf.
Nshinwa bwino
April 25, 2013 at 8:33 am
Just learn the hand signals and stop complaining!!
Sam Lindo
April 25, 2013 at 9:18 am
ZAMBIANS GENRALLY HAVE BECOME SO CORRUPT, EVEN THOSE OF US ON THE RECEIVING END ARE TO BLAME BECAUSE WE HAVE COME TO ACCEPT THE PAYMENT OF BRIBES AS NORMAL. WALK INTO ANY POLICE POST AND AFTER BEING SERVED I AM SURE YOU WILL NOT WALK OUT WITHOUT BEING ASKED FOR TALK TIME MONEY BY A COP AND WE NORMALLY GIVE IN AS THOUGH IT IS NORMAL> AS FOR RATSA OR RASTA> IT IS EVEN WORSE.
the 3ye
April 25, 2013 at 9:42 am
Just a frustrated fellow, so why didn’t you report these chaps by name if you know them and you have evidence of what is really going on?
Mundia M
April 25, 2013 at 2:42 pm
Iwe are you working for RTSA to defend their corrupt behaviour? Even at Inductrial Training Centre (ITC), for any trained truck driver to pass you have to pay the examining officer.
I believe management of both RTSA & ITC are part and parcel of this rot!
James
April 25, 2013 at 10:07 am
One example is chipata RTSA,they lure would be bad drivers to get a licence as long as you have K500,000.You pay today and your licence will be ready tomorrow.Corruption is real with RTSA.
Mwine Mushi
April 25, 2013 at 10:20 am
Imwe bafikala mwilatalika aba ba RTSA it’s true they have agents, and corruption is rampant in our country because we Zambians have come to believe that we have to bribe someone for doing their job that they get paid for at the end of the month, ubu bututu, kulabakalipila bafikala nga everytime somebody asks for money for a drink/talk time for doing their job matako yenu!
Just go to RATSA durin the time of paying road tax/fitness you will find these agent with a pile of white books being served for more than half a day everyday and how they make us suffer standing in those qeues for hours, at the end of the day these basttards meet at the shabeens with their concubines to share the money, nga uletalika chikala go and look at the mansions these faggots who are destroying our counntry have built and look at the posh cars they drive together with their concubines!
xxx
April 25, 2013 at 11:48 am
that is what happens!!!!
msoro
April 25, 2013 at 12:48 pm
help us the poor are disadvantage investigate even luanshya has agents now if you go genuinely expect a to fail unless you use agents.i passed reverse then on road i was failed that i did not overtake any vehicle. I rebooked but to my suprise i was told that i have to pass in cornes again i asked only to be told there is no half booking you have to start afresh . shame accidents will never end with his atitude by some rtsa officials. thank you mr manager lya for understanding my complaint that day you have a heart.please get involved in tests always they fear you.
Danje Lacky
April 25, 2013 at 2:06 pm
Actually even without debating our traffic officers are very corrupt
giant
April 25, 2013 at 3:05 pm
This is wasting time, is corruption new, why write this long shit, it is a well known issue, what is there to investigate? even Sata knows that the police is corrupt kabili he was one before though in kaputula gear with a lot of londo, na starch. making a sharp londo.
k
April 25, 2013 at 3:30 pm
The question you should be asking is what is a test? then you will see some questions could be a form test to see if a driver knows the rules of driving. if what you are being told is wrong. state out that you cant do it coz its not right.
Jack Malama
April 25, 2013 at 3:50 pm
It’s the way of the jungle. Vive to corruption, otherwise nothing ever happens without it.
Dodo
April 25, 2013 at 4:48 pm
MULETALIKAFYE BAMUMBWE THIS ****** ARE DEMN CORRUPT THE GUY IS RIGHT MYBE YOU ARE ONE OF THEM.
Shameless
April 25, 2013 at 6:45 pm
How I wish Zambians would learn how to use roundabouts, you always get idiots entering or exiting the wrong lane. The Stop sign at a cross road is not a decoration, these idiots need to lean this too.
Mwila
April 25, 2013 at 7:56 pm
traffic officer are getting double sararies
Concerned
April 25, 2013 at 8:10 pm
It is unfortunate that a recruit from training nowaydays does not pass thru the inquiries office and learn police work instead they go straight to traffic section.They do not even know how testify in courts.What they do is to tell the accused to admit to the charge. Shame!!!!
barclay
April 25, 2013 at 8:11 pm
Iwe, jst read the highway code.
JD
April 25, 2013 at 9:17 pm
LMAO.. windows to my car are always closed and its a left hand drive
Concerned Zambian
April 26, 2013 at 12:11 am
Iam azambian living in the diaspora and my question is ,”Are we Zambians ready to cure this cancer called corruption ?”.Ithink corruption is now a pandemic problem in zambia and more prevalent in state institutions.Secondly, how ready are we to address this issue? This is sad and disgraceful development to mother zambia as no investors in future would be willing to waste their moneys if this bug is not eliminated once and for all .Coming to RTSA,I have no kind words for them ,Govt to re structure and remove all the bad seeds,Train new staff who should be computor literate,Revamp and update the High way code.Mass retraining of Driving Instructors in Zambia on new high way code,Introduce theory tests on computors which should include “Hazard Perceptions as well as many things have changed on the roads today and almost all cars are computerised now.Intsll CCTV cameras in RTSA offices
words i never said
April 26, 2013 at 7:30 pm
hide my identity? Why?
Bana Cimbusa
April 30, 2013 at 3:51 pm
yaba, I think uyu balimufyengageshya mwe, asuka azala.. Balitumpa ba pompwe ba RTSA.
Observer
April 30, 2013 at 4:47 pm
road traffic officers are corrupt everywhere in the world. ni normal fye. Possibly check statistics of the most corrupt law enforcement officers…
SAKASTIK
April 30, 2013 at 8:04 pm
RTSA has gone to the Dogs or the Dogs have gone to RTSA. For real my licence can not come out may be because I have not paid anyone outside the receipt book.This agency needs a serious clean up.