Nyamsoro
goes to Government Institutions
Mpumalanga government officials stationed at the
Riverside Government Complex did not escape the wrath of Nyamsoro as hundreds of them opted to pay their outstanding traffic
fines on the spot on Monday, 27 October 2014 than to be arrested.
The Nyamsoros
were posted across the entrance and exit of the complex in the morning and
afternoon during two operations that were led by Mpumalanga Community Safety,
Security and Liaison MEC Vusi Shongwe.
The two operations assisted the department to
recover about R80 000 in traffic fines owed by motorists working around
the Government Complex.
Nyamsoros are the recently introduced Automated Number Plate
Recognition vehicles which are used to identify motorists who have outstanding
fines or summonses by reading the vehicles’ number plates.
With Nyamsoros,
motorists are allowed to pay on the spot through electronic payment system that
is fitted in the vehicles. The vehicles
were unveiled three weeks ago during a roadblock that was conducted on the N4 Toll Road
MEC Shongwe has urged government officials who have
outstanding fines to settle them because failure to do so may lead to arrests.
The MEC has reiterated his call to public servants and politicians to lead by
example and become road safety ambassadors so that government messages on road
safety are taken seriously by communities.
‘We will not tolerate the attitude that government
officials and other motorists demonstrate towards obeying the law, we must lead
by example. We need to help government to enhance and promote road safety by
being good drivers ourselves,’’ said Shongwe.
Shongwe said that the Monday’s operation will assist
in sending messages that government is serious about enhancing road safety and
bringing to book all those who break the law regardless who they are or where
they work.
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