N.dollars 316 million spent annually on road maintenance: Mutorwa

Contributed by NAMPA.

RUNDU, 25 MAR (NAMPA) – Government, through the Roads Authority (RA), spends about N.dollars 316 million annually on road maintenance countrywide, due to damage caused by heavy vehicles, the Minister of Works and Transport, John Mutorwa has said.
Mutorwa, who was speaking during a stakeholders’ consultative meeting on vehicle loads and road safety at Rundu on Monday, explained that of the N. dollars 316 million, N.dollars 20 million of the maintenance is resultant from overloaded vehicles.
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