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Vehicle owners have expressed their concern over the failure by the Central Vehicle Registration (CVR) to make the registration plates available amid an ongoing police attack on vehicle owners driving without displaying any plates.
Police have been impounding vehicles that has no number plates yet the CVR department does not have enough plates to meet the demand due to foreign currency shortages.
In an interview with Techmag.Tv a vehicle owner Takudzwa Machaya said that the police are charging heft fines if your vehicle does not have registration plates yet the CVR does not have enough number plates.
“Police are charging hefty fines for nothing, they should stop impounding vehicles until the CVR have enough plates to meet the demand,” Machaya said.
“It’s been a week since the police impounded my car because I could not pay a fine of US$25, at the same time I have been coming at CVR offices but they are saying number plates are not enough,”
“…, they also charging us in foreign currency US$80 on set of plates arguing that we import cars in foreign currency but the amount is just too much,”
Parliament Transport committee toured the CVR on fact finding mission on the shortage of number plates.
Committee Chairperson Oscar Gorerino said that police should stop charging these exorbitant prices and work with the CVR department and listen to what the officials say.
CVR Registrar George Makoni has also pleaded with the committee to intervene with the arrest of people who had money to buy plates but were being abused due to the current shortages.
“Police can arrest those who do not display their temporary identification cards (TICs) and no
those who have made applications and paid for those plates. Why are you taking money from the public if you do not have enough plates?”
According to Makoni, more than 80 000 vehicles in the country were being driven no number plates.
“CVR does not have enough plates, currently 34 000 plates are available for issuance since July 2020 against a backlog of 57 000 applicants when we received components. Delays were due to Covid -19 and the subsequent lockdown,” Makoni told the committee,” he said.
He also added that foreign currency shortages had resulted in the department failing to meet the demand.
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