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Zinara director of administration Mr Precious Murove confirmed the huge response from motorists. He said mobile registration teams were deployed on major highways to help register more vehicles.
“As we speak there is a team moving from Harare to Bulawayo. It will be carrying out the registration in Kwekwe, Gweru and Bulawayo. The respective local authorities would be invoking their by-laws on unlicensed vehicles in addition to Zinara’s demands for licence fees,” he said.
Last week 151 vehicles were clamped and towed away on Harare streets with the city benefiting through clamping, tow away and storage fees.
Mr Murove said following the positive response by motorists the number of unlicensed vehicles was reduced from 150 097 to 117 000.
He said out of the 460 000 on Zinara’s books only 342 900 vehicles were registered. Last week’s vehicle population stood at 457 949.
Asked why the figures on Zinara books remained almost static when more vehicles were being registered on a daily basis, Mr Murove said it was because some motorists never come back to renew their licences.
Vehicle licence fees are used to develop and rehabilitate the country’s roads, buy road repair equipment such as earth moving equipment and road signs.
Some of the funds are extended to local authorities to use on their road maintenance programmes.
Mr Murove said the blitz would soon be extended to shopping malls like Sam Levy’s, Westgate and Avondale during the night in an effort to clamp down on motorists whose vehicles are never used on national highways and the city centre. He warned motorists against buying fake insurance from touts.
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