{"id":282608,"date":"2019-10-28T15:44:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T13:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=282608"},"modified":"2019-10-28T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T13:44:24","slug":"six-bus-drivers-nabbed-by-city-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=282608","title":{"rendered":"Six bus drivers nabbed by City Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eba Kandovazu<\/p>\n<p>THE Windhoek City Police at the start of the weekend arrested six bus drivers on a number of irregularities, ranging from a lack of registration certificates and transportation permits amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>City Police Spokesperson Fabian Amukwelele said in an interview with Informant\u00e9 that an operation was carried out on Friday and uncovered some bus drivers who&#8217;ve applied for public transportation permits between Windhoek and the North but instead have now started operating within the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-facebook\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/informantenam\/videos\/1366839600141129\/\n<\/div><figcaption>Footage by Eba Kandovazu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"js_2\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _3576\" data-testid=\"post_message\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>It was found that the bus drivers were also operating without business address signs. Others were fined for overloading and skipping red traffic lights. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The operation we had was specifically on public transport fitness. We received complaints from road users about city bus drivers causing obstruction in the streets by stopping to load passengers and skipping red traffic lights. The operation was also aimed at curbing taxis operating with pirated numbers,&#8221; Amukwelele said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bus drivers have since paid their fines<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":282623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Six bus drivers nabbed by City Police - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Windhoek City Police at the start of the weekend arrested six bus drivers on a number of irregularities, ranging from a lack of registration certificates and transportation permits amongst others.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=282608\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Six bus drivers nabbed by City Police - 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