By SANFROSSA MBERI
IT is with sad reading that we see pump prices being hiked in the midst of various challenges affecting the public, the Bus and Taxi Owners Association of Zambia (BTOAZ) in Chingola has said.
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BTOAZ Chingola district chairman Nedy Munyenyembe said fuel price was the determining factor to the shelf price of many essential house hold commodities among others mealie meal, cooking oil and sugar.
Mr Munyenyembe said Zambia, being a consuming country was mainly dependant on imports of almost all daily needs which were transported by road to all parts of the country.
“The increase of fuel prices, and indeed the monthly price review of fuel is a negative factor to planning and budgeting not only for business houses, but also for households. With the unstable pump prices, it entails unstable prices of goods and services hence, inconveniencing the budgeting pattern of already suffocating families,” Mr Munyenyembe said.
Mr Munyenyembe said the association had a lot of pending issues that had not been addressed ranging from piracy, undesignated loading points, high taxes and RTSA rates as well as high cost of spare parts.
He said the cost of doing business in the transport sector has become very challenging and unpredictable, a trend that has seen many of their colleagues run out of business.
He added that the association’s desire was to see the government through the Ministry of Energy and Energy Regulation Board find a lasting solution to stabilise the pump prices.
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