Interesting time for Road Authority

IT is interesting to read news regarding what the Road Transport Authority (RTA) is going to do to monitor and regulate Public Motor vehicles in PNG along with the inspection of vehicles being brought in from overseas.
To Wilson Wariaka, who in your team is qualified to carry out any said inspection?
One must be a qualified automotive engineer or similar.
Further to this, where is your inspection station?
To allow a person to import a car and then expect them to re-export the vehicle if it doesn’t comply is an erroneous trap yet again set by your team.
Fact is vehicles should not be allowed to enter PNG or depart export port without said docs.
How do you expect your staff to carry out highly technical functions such as roadworthy inspections on imported motor vehicles?
Our staff are harassed by RTA staff at road checks making up lies and rubbish to extort money out of the driving public.
Recently we identified an RTA officer who illegally confiscated a driver’s licence, threatened to impound a vehicle and demanded a K500 fine.
We went to the RTA office only to be told the driver’s licence was not there? Why?
The staff was wandering around the city days later with the licence in his pocket.
Is that another attempt by your team to extort money from the public?
It wasn’t until our team located him and threatened to have him arrested that he chose to surrender the licence. It is time the Government auditors have a close look at the TIN books.
What audit systems are in place to ensure all TIN’s issued are actually paid into the state’s revenue bank accounts?
Finally, what training have any of the officers who conduct road checks have had with regards to the PNG Traffic Act.
Judging by their conduct, it appears they have never read it.

Balimo Boi
Boroko