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Despite Constructing Road In Congo! Ungrateful Congolese Start Charging Zambians $50 To Use Pedicle Road
SEVERAL vehicles trying to use the Pedicle road were on Saturday marooned at Mokambo border post in Mufulira following introduction of new visa requirements by Congolese authorities that are demanding that every Zambian pays US$50 to use the road.
Many Zambians heading to Luapula Province have for many years used the 70-kilometre stretch, passing through the Democratic Republic Congo, which is the shorter route of getting to Mansa district.
The Zambian government is also constructing the famous Pedicle road from Mokambo border in Mufulira, passing through Congo DR up to Mansa.
But motorists and passengers on Saturday woke up to a rude shock when officers on the Congolese side closed the border, demanding that every Zambian passing through the Pedicle road pays US$50.
The officers claimed that the instructions were in line with the visa requirements that the Congolese government in Kinshasa had approved.
“The border is closed; Congolese are demanding a lot of money that we can’t afford. There is no way we can be paying US$50 each to use the Pedicle road, which our Zambian government is in fact constructing. People are stranded; trucks carrying goods that are supposed to get into Mansa are marooned, including the vehicles carrying newspapers from Zambia that are destined for Mansa,” said Jonathan Zimba, a motorist.
Officers talked to from the Zambian immigration department expressed shock at the conduct of their colleagues on the Congolese side.
“Vehicles were paying a minimal fee to get into Congo. It was raised suddenly to K30 by our colleagues on the Congolese side and now they are claiming that one must pay US$50. This is shocking,” one of the officers who declined to be named said in an interview.
Officers from the Copperbelt minister’s office and the Office of the President that rushed to Mokambo held a meeting with Congolese officials, whose outcome is is yet to be known.
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ken
June 29, 2015 at 11:35 am
Its very simple.
How many trucks are passing through Zambia to the DRC?
Are we charging anything?
Are we going to charge anything?
Pwanya Nini
June 29, 2015 at 12:59 pm
And the American civil right leader Jesse Jackson has warned whites in United States not to behave like Tongas in Zambia who are the nastiest tribalists in Zambia & the world @ large.He further equated Tongas to the white racist group called Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to that of Kachemas in Southern part of Zambia. Yikes!
kakolwe
June 29, 2015 at 11:56 am
Thats the beauty of ignorance! If I am passing through, THROUGH! Congo, does it mean I am going to stay or do business there? Luapulans have no intentions of going to Congo but are forced to PASS THROUGH that stretch. Elo iwe citumfweko, this happened on saturday and resolutions where made. Yet you were busy lying about olufamous.com lady being from Wusakile ati Busakile!! Ukutumpa.
Shaka Zulu
June 29, 2015 at 12:02 pm
Indeed. I agree with ken.Lets charge the same amount to Congolese passing through Zambia to and from Kasumbalesa.They are so many.
MUPANDAPWITI
June 29, 2015 at 12:22 pm
Bapya elo katumbi bukala bwakwea ama truck fulu muno….
Judge Joe Bidden
June 29, 2015 at 12:27 pm
Zambia should just do a tit-for-tat, alot of Zaireans trucks pass through Zambia en-route to South Africa, just increase their tax etc.
Nzamba Mobutu
June 29, 2015 at 12:47 pm
You have to pay for passing through our country. did we ask you to construct that road? As Congoles have no use for it. MWEMBWAMWE!
King Leopard
June 29, 2015 at 1:52 pm
Chi-kala chobe, that’s why you will forever remain backward. Its a curse that we have such ignorant monkeys (Bamakaka) as our neighbors
Pioneer
June 29, 2015 at 2:03 pm
Nalikwisula ibôngo na link, yakwa King Leopard, te?
KILO ONE
June 29, 2015 at 12:50 pm
I think Zambians have been taken for granted too long. We have been too good to deserve these barbaric treatments from Zaireans – Zambia react.
FuManchu
June 30, 2015 at 12:06 am
Docility my friend, docility! When we are struck on the cheek we turn the other cheek so that it gets struck twice!
chatasha
June 29, 2015 at 12:57 pm
May be they have had no salaries for the past six months.They see it as a source of income.Teach these Zaireans a lesson for once.
ken
June 29, 2015 at 1:06 pm
Yes. We should close all other borders except the Mokambo one so that they too are forced to pass there. In fact only open the one to Mansa no Copper belt so that they pass through TUTA and put six toll gates there before they find another one at Kapili and enter the weigh bridge again.
nine
June 29, 2015 at 1:06 pm
ubucushi ku Congo, awe kubapelafye $50 pantu bantu besu abena Congo
ken
June 29, 2015 at 1:11 pm
During the UDI of Southern Rhodesia, Zambia spent over &680m (shit! can’t see the pound symbol on key board). We had to airlift petroleum products from Dar. Now we have to be f*cked again by this kasai pe**s protruding into Zambia.
Tukasumako kuchidoyo ici!
desh m
June 29, 2015 at 1:57 pm
But batubelesha ba mumbwe let as also do the same
Sangwapo
June 29, 2015 at 5:31 pm
What a corrupt country this Zaire is!
Bilanga
June 29, 2015 at 6:22 pm
Fipuba sana bakasai in fact they depend on us for everything.
kalumba
June 29, 2015 at 6:25 pm
Congo shud appreciate .along pedicle road its just a bush no develpment.let them close the boarder & see if the will not suffer we will be using tuta road.fikabolala fi congo bunda bwa congo dust.
kalembe kafyuke
June 29, 2015 at 6:54 pm
Zambian Gvt,just close this boarder,my fellow pedicle Rd users will be using the long winding Tuta RD,a saying says’AKASHOKELE KALIFIKILE.we will get to Mansa,kale batampa ukutumpa ba kambwanga bafiko aba.
Douglas Banda
June 29, 2015 at 7:22 pm
Let there be peace in Africa in Jesus’ name, you satan and your demons causing confusion between Zambia and the DRC we overcome you by the blood of the Jesus…we decree and declare Jesus to reign in Zambia
Beautiful Moma
June 29, 2015 at 7:44 pm
Douglas Banda sunshine, we all love our Lord but surely, surely you cant blame evil for every twig that falls to the ground. This has nothing to do with devil and crew, it’s poverty at play.
Atase
June 29, 2015 at 7:28 pm
Use-less can tree.
Chimbwi
June 29, 2015 at 10:25 pm
Nothing good about Condo DR apart from their women.
MIG
June 30, 2015 at 12:06 am
Zambia should just reciprocate,no DRC bound trunks or vehicles should pass through Zambia.