By FRANK KIMARO
Government has continued to call
upon workers who have changed the public vehicles plate numbers and replace them
with their own, that they must change their registration before the grace
period is over on 15th of this month.
The Deputy Permanent Secretary in
the Ministry of Works, Dr John Ndunguru made the remarks during the press conference
prepared to alert again those who have register public cars with their private
plate number to change the registration at Ministry offices yesterday.
Dr Ndunguru said that the
ultimatum time remaining for those who have monopolizing state vehicles is so
limited and they should start to change the registration willingly before
strong measures facing them.
“We will start a special
operation after 12 days and we will impound vehicles and take measures to those
who have refused to re-register their public cars as it was intended by the
government,” he said.
He further explained that there
will be no any blame because they were given a three weeks period since it was
announced by the Minister of Works, Dr John Magufuli.
“On 19th October this
year Minister met with press where he asked all those who use Public Cars
without recognized order and law from the government they should start
registering themselves in order where he gave three weeks period,” he quoted
the Minister of Works.
Dr Ndunguru tried to explain on
rule which give his ministry power to make sure they keep public cars in a good
order and making sure they are used as it was intended by the government.
“The Road Safety Act No. 30 of 1973 gives
authority to the ministry of works to register and to keep informations of all
public cars which will be given number starts with JW,PT,ST and DFP while MT
was added in to The Road Traffic Rules, 2012,”He referred to the documents.
Dr Ndunguru stated that it is not
the first time for the ministry to conduct such operation saying that it has
ready happen in past years and good number of people was arraigned to the
court.
“In between 2002 and 2004 the
operation was conducted where 21,000 cars, motorcycles and machines were
caught, so we have experienced the operation before,” he stated.
