Pemba: More than 100 motorcycles seized – reports

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Pemba: More than 100 motorcycles seized – reports

12:51 CAT | 26 May 2022

Photo: Noticias

Joint teams of the Police of the Republic, Municipal Police and of the National Institute of Road Transport (INATRO) detained 100 motorcyclists and seized their respective motorbikes from Tuesday to Wednesday, in the city of Pemba, Cabo Delgado, on the grounds of lacking a driving license, not wearing a helmet, or transporting an excessive number of people.

The operation is intended to regularise motorcycle taxi activity in the city, currently carried out in a state of anarchy, Pemba Mayor Florete Simba told the press this Wednesday.

“What happens is that anyone who buys a motorcycle takes to the public road and operates as a motorcycle taxi, without a driving licence or any notion of the highway code, among other factors that contribute to traffic accidents,” Simba explained.

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Statistics indicate 25 accidents involving motorcyclists in the first quarter of the current year, against 50 in the same period in 2021.

The Municipality intends to change this situation by creating a data base of those who operate under the following rules: basic instruction on the highway code, a driving licence, two helmets for each transporter [ per motortaxi ] and that only one passenger at a time is transported. This initiative will be carried out in collaboration with the traffic police and the INATRO. Rádio Sem Fronteiras reports.

The Mayor further urged taxi drivers to behave in an urban manner, adding that they will benefit from some lectures on this mater.

Florete Simba assured that, by next August, the situation of motortaxi drivers operating in the city of Pemba without documentation and without helmets will have improved.

Many young people without jobs try working as motorcycle taxis for a subsistence livelihood.

Source: Noticias / Rádio Sem Fronteiras