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PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu in a booth at Michael Chilufya Sata Toll Plaza on the Ndola-Kitwe dual carriageway yesterday. PICTURE: SALIM HENRY/STATE HOUSE

Tolls to build Zambia – Lungu

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CHISHALA MUSONDA, Ndola
PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says the tolling system being rolled out in the country is not meant to overburden Zambians with taxes but help build infrastructure countrywide using locally generated resources. (more…)

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Road tolls changing landscape

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FRANCIS LUNGU, Lusaka
‘SUSTAINABLE road maintenance, improved life span of a motor vehicle, reduced maintenance cost of motor vehicles, improved traffic flow, and promotion of trade,” these are some of the benefits accruing from toll gates collections, according to Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Development Ronald Chitotela. (more…)

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Profile: NATIONAL Roads Fund Agency yesterday started operating a number of newly installed toll gates around the Country. Here motorists wait for their turn to pay toll fees at Manyumbi toll gate in Kapiri Mposhi on Great North Road. PICTURE: CHAMBO NGUNI

State collects K236m tolls

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KELVIN CHONGO, Parliament
MINISTER of Housing and Infrastructure Development Ronald Chitotela has told Parliament that Government has raised K236 million from toll fees between January and May this year.

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A MOTORIST pays toll fees at Kafulafuta on Ndola-Kapiri Road. Government recently introduced Road Toll Gates on Great North Road. PICTURE: MATHEWS KABAMBA.

Zambia tolls towards better, safer roads

CHARLES CHISALA, Lusaka
TRUCK driver Boniface Nkonde hardly spends a week in Zambia. He travels around the country, to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Malawi at least twice in a month, seeing his family only between trips.

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