Homeland security to act on Motorcycle operators that haven’t complied

by Dickson Chivwati Gondwe

The Ministry of Homeland Security says it will soon engage the Inspector General of police on the next course of action for motorcycle operators that are still failing to comply with the rules and regulations that were put in place to inorder to reduce road accidents across the country.

This follows the expiry of a six-month period on 31st January 2022 which was given to the operators to comply with all the stipulated safety guidelines.Principal Secretary for the ministry, Kennedy Nkhoma has told reporters that they will meet the Inspector General of Police in due course to do a postmortem of the campaign.

However, one of the operators in the city of Lilongwe Laurent Mzembe acknowledges their failure to comply with rules but adds that it due to financial hiccups.

In August 2020, government gave the operators six months to register their motorcycles and sort out other issues that contravene traffic rules.