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“The decision by Zinara to scrap off the vehicle licensing deadline is so outrageous in its defiance of logic that no sensible person properly applying his or her mind to the issue could have come up with such a skewed decision.
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“It gives the distinct impression that the decision maker took leave of his or her senses.
“People never asked for the extension of the registration deadline. They were in any event accorded it. Everyone was therefore entitled to register even on the last day of the deadline.
“That right, which had been freely accorded, could not thus be taken away with immediate effect,” said Adv Mpofu.
Motorists said Zinara should operate professionally.
“Zinara should stop confusing the motoring public by giving conflicting statements. Why did they extend the deadline in the first place when they in actual fact knew it was illegal?” asked Mr Godfrey Jaricha of Glen View.
He said Zinara should have stuck to the extension if it wanted to retain credibility.
Mr Lazarus Chikonzo of Hatfield said the extension of the deadline was a ploy by Zinara to fleece motorists of their hard-earned cash.
“What they are doing is showing us the other side of Zinara which is greediness. This was a trap to ensure that either Zinara or the Zimbabwe Republic Police rip us off.
“This is confusion of the worst kind. We are now wondering whether Zinara is operating in our best interest. Any professional organisation will never do that as it will just stick to its proposed dates,” he said.
A kombi operator Jairos Guma said: “We are not happy with how this Zinara is changing goalposts. We had since made our budgets and this new development is actually a big impediment to our operations.”
He said the June 30 deadline had come as a reprieve, but Zinara was now making life difficult for motorists.
Zinara spokesman Mr Augustine Moyo on Tuesday said they scrapped the extension because motorists had stopped licensing their vehicles following the extension.
Yesterday, police were ticketing motorists without valid licence discs.
By May 31, Zinara had licensed 220 000 vehicles out of an estimated vehicle population of 800 000.
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