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Mr Gwindi said council did not want to lose the ground that had been gained through police intervention.
Harare residents woke up to a different environment yesterday with police rounding up marshals and touts.
Truckloads of touts could be seen in the CBD amid jubilation by kombi crews and commuters.
Sanity prevailed at the ranks yesterday as crews loaded their kombis without hassles.
“The kombis would at times drop us as far as ABC Auctions along Seke Road and we had to walk all the way to Kaguvi Building,” said Mr Thomas Tungamirai from Unit A, Chitungwiza.
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President of the Urban Commuters Association Mr Simbarashe Ngarande said the association was meeting rank committees to ensure the smooth movement of vehicles.
“We are happy witposts would also be erected to denote routes.
The police h the police action. We hope their operation will be sustained,” he said.
Mr Ngarande said all operators had been instructed to put destination cards and to clearly mark their vehicles.
Huge signaction comes a few days after touts attacked two soldiers at the Charge Office rank and because operators had lodged complaints over the behaviour of the touts.
Some kombi drivers shunned the ranks as they dropped passengers outside the CBD.
Pirate taxi operators were also arrested.
Kombi crews said they were happy to see the police intervening and providing a better environment for their operations.
“We are happy as of now because the touts are nowhere to be seen. It would be good if the current atmosphere prevails forever because we were losing a lot of money.
“Hopefully with time we will have enough money to service our vehicles with what we have been losing, for the good of commuters,” he said.
Yesterday the operators were not paying protection fees.
Meanwhile, the four soldiers arrested in Chitungwiza for assaulting touts and passengers at Makoni shopping centre remained in custody yesterday assisting police with investigations.
Military police had also been seen at some ranks after the attack on the two soldiers.
Director of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces public relations Colonel Overson Mugwisi said the military police enforced discipline among soldiers.
“The role of the military police is to enforce discipline among our soldiers. They also patrol in town as part of their duties,” he said without giving further details.
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