ZANU PF Marshals Collect Fees from Pirate Taxis

ZANU PF Marshals Collect Fees from Pirate Taxis

ZANU PF-affiliated marshals have reportedly taken control of traffic and are collecting fees from pirate taxis in Kwekwe, as revealed by Kwekwe Ward 3 Councillor, Pikurai Msipa, during a recent full council meeting.

The local authority is struggling to address the issue of illegal pirate taxis and to collect revenue from designated vendors’ stalls, Msipa claimed.

However, ZANU PF councillor Makomborero edu Mlambo of Ward 8 Amaveni refuted allegations that the marshals collecting money from pirate taxis were associated with his party, although acknowledging the revenue loss.

Msipa further alleged that these marshals, adorned in ZANU PF regalia, are under the control of influential party officials in the Midlands.

“The situation is so bad that even the local authority’s marshals take orders from the illegal party marshals.
“We are losing revenue as council because there are some people who wear certain party regalia and collect money from transporters in our bus terminus daily.

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“These people have the power to control our council police officers. Our officers are taking orders from them that is why we are struggling with pirate taxis.

“We have pirate taxis for Amaveni and we always see these people wearing a certain party T-shirt collecting money from those pirate taxis operators,” said Msipa.

“I beg to differ because there is no one from my party doing that. It’s true that we are losing money and we expect council to do something but this money is not being lost because of people from my party,” he said.

Acting Chamber Secretary, Athunas Chidzurira said the only people responsible for collecting revenue are council officials.

“We only know of our council officers who collect revenue from our residents and we encourage residents to pay to our officials,” he said.