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Newsletter 06 Final Edited.Cdr NRFA ROAD MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE TOLLING NEWS A PublicationNRF of the National Road Fund Agency EditionA No. 006 July - September 2018 ROAD MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE Michael Chilufya Sata Toll Plaza between Ndola and Kitwe A Sustainable Road Fund EDITORIAL TEAM IN THIS ISSUE Message from the Director/CEO.............................3 Toll Gate Construction Works in Presidential Mr. Alphonsius Hamachila Boost.....................................................................4 - 5 Manager Public Relations (Editor) NRFA Most Open Public Institution.......................6 2019 National Budget Excerpt ................................ 7 NRFA Joins Hands in Capacity Building................8 We are Grateful - Says Ndola City Council ...........10 Mumbwa Toll Gate Introduces ‘List of Shame.....11 Toll Compliance Levels Stand at 99.93 Percent .................................................................................12 Road Sector Needs an Army of Ideas.....................13 Zambia Heads Regional Arm of Road Fund Ms. Rachel Namukolo Public Relations Assistant Association............................................................. 14 Employee Profile ................................................... 15 Feedback from Facebook................................16 - 17 NRFA Team in Soccer Bonanza.............................18 DISCLAIMER Views expressed in the articles and stories in this journal are not necessarily those of NRFA, its Board of Directors or Management. The Editor welcomes contributions on the National Road Tolling Programme. Mr. Daniel Mtonga Ms. Eunice Mukata Director - Tolling Tolling Operations Assistant National Road Fund Agency Plot 33 Fairly Road, Ridgeway Area P.O. Box 50695, Lusaka Toll Line: 700 Email: [email protected] Web: www.nrfa.org.zm National Road Fund Agency-NRFA @ nrfa_zambia Mrs. Micah Chola Eng. Charles Kandeke Manager Finance Highway Engineer - Tolling 2 MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER e a r e programmes which include Copperbelt 400 to pleased the tune of US$492 million, and the Zambia Wt o Urban Roads costing US$232 million, the Link a n n o u n c e Zambia 8000 road project worth K25 billion and commencement of other Annual Work Plan Programmes. Road Tolling at the Michael Chilufya Specically, the Road Tolling Maintenance Sata Toll Gate on Programme (RoToMaP) which is enshrined in the Ndola-Kitwe the Road Development Agency (RDA)'s Road R o a d , a n d t h e Maintenance Strategy is supporting Local Kyabankaka Toll Authorities and RDA in carrying out pothole G a t e b e t w e e n patching, road markings and signage and Solwezi and Mutanda in Northwestern construction of speed humps on roads Province, in our ongoing endeavor to increase adjacent to tolled roads. the Road Tolling footprint on commercially viable points of the country's major highways. As we roll out the Road Tolling Programme, we wish to assure the general public that we have put in The two Toll Stations are particularly signicant, place systems and controls to ensure thorough having been constructed in the heart of accountability of all the collected revenues in order Zambia's mining hub and on key roads which to instil public condence and trust. are not only central to our economic growth but The Tolls revenue is ring-fenced for road link the Democratic Republic of Congo and maintenance, construction and rehabilitation in Angola to the rest of Zambia, an essential part line with Part III Section 11 of the Tolls Act No. 14 of the North-South Trade Corridor. of 2011. All collected tolls are deposited into a consolidated account for record purposes and In order to ease the movement of goods and remitted into the Road Fund for onward people and tap immense benets from roads disbursement and this cycle leaves an audit trail in the mining region, and using the Road Tolling which can be reconciled from source to programme as collateral, we secured a win-win expenditure. nancing arrangement with the National Pensions Scheme Authority (NAPSA) to the Additionally, all transactions at inland Toll Stations amount of K2.12 billion which has seen the are monitored in real time at a control centre completion of road works on the Ndola-Kitwe, installed at the NRFA Head Ofce in Lusaka with a Kitwe - Chingola and Chingola - Solwezi video recording for each transaction which can be Roads. played back for reconciliatory purposes. We wish to reiterate that Zambia's Road Tolling With the commencement of Road Tolling at the Programme is on the right course and has so far above cited Toll Gates to be complimented in attracted the attention of the region, and beyond, due course by three more upcoming Toll Gates with countries including Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi between Kitwe and Chingola, Chingola and and Namibia undertaking study visits to Zambia so Solwezi, and Mufulira -Sabina Roads, we are that they could replicate the programme in their all but guaranteed of a steady and sustainable respective countries. ow of revenue to continuously maintain these road stretches so that they do not degenerate to the deplorable state in which they were. Happy Independence Celebrations. Eng. Wallece Mumba This will be in addition to nancing key road 3 Toll Gate Construction Works in Presidential Boost By Rachel Namukolo NRFA Director/CEO Eng. Wallece Mumba welcomes President Edgar Lungu to the Garneton Toll Plaza on the Kitwe-Chingola Road overnment has placed particular interest The Head of State called for adherence to the 20 and priority in ensuring the growth of the percent inclusion of local contractors in projects Groad sector as it places emphasis on road as per government policy. infrastructure development to facilitate socio- economic development, being a driver for all “We want to upscale the sub-contracting policy sectors in the country. to 50 percent. I am getting reports that we are being deceived by the 20 percent component. It In coming up with innovative ways of raising funds should be an obligation and when they say they to not only upgrade, rehabilitate and construct but [local contractors] don't have capacity, the NCC most importantly maintain the country's road should come in and help,” he said. network, the National Road Tolling Program ts perfectly as a home-grown solution to road And NRFA Director /CEO Eng. Wallece Mumba maintenance. said the Agency was committed to ensuring that tolls were ploughed back into road maintenance, Since Phase II of the National Road Tolling upgrading and rehabilitation. Programme was initiated in 2016, the NRFA has so far operationalised 10 inland toll stations and is “The Agency receives 100 percent of the tolls on the verge of expanding the tolling blue print to a from the Ministry of Finance and we work very total 40 stations across the country. closely with our sister Agency the RDA that we ensure that those monies are used for road The Tolling initiative is top on Government's maintenance”, he said. agenda with His Excellence Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, President of the Republic of Zambia taking time to tour construction sites for the Garneton and Chingola-Solwezi Toll Gates in August, this year. 4 Toll Gate Construction Works in Presidential Boost Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Development Honorable Ronald Chitotela, MP, giving President Lungu an insight on works done at the Garneton Toll Plaza United we Stand, Divided we Fall By Anthony Konsolo he importance of human This article is incomplete stations’ duciary management capital cannot be over w i t h o u t m e n t i o n i n g t h e of the nancial resources. Temphasized in our day to Agency's Headquarters on 33 day operations at the National Fairley Road, the nerve centre In addition the Monitoring and Road Fund Agency (NRFA). or the heartbeat of this Evaluation Department also i m p o r t a n t o p e r a t i o n . giving its guidance on Value for Think of the driver who has to C o r p o r a t e S e r v i c e s Money. It is also worth noting the ensure that the team arrives in Department to ensure that the advisory responsibility to the time for the shift. The Toll right staff are employed, and parent ministry being the Ministry Collector sitting in front of that ensuring that our welfare is of Finance and in the same point of sale machine which in attended to. Tied to it is Public b r e a t h a d h e r e t o p o l i c y my humble philosophy I refer to Relations Unit that ensures the pronouncements or good a s t h e o r i g i n o f r o a d public is well informed and strategic direction. construction and maintenance. informed timeously. It is from that till that the funds Equally important is theStrategic for road construction and Audit Department to ensure Plan 2017-2021 from which we maintenance are collected. The that we keep abreast with the derive a catalyst to enhanced Shift Supervisor to ensure that P u b l i c F i n a n c e a n d performance, and that being the the shift runs smoothly and at Management Act riding on balanced score card. optimum level. The Senior Toll strong systems and controls. Collector ensuring that the Fund Management who do not United we stand as strong NRFA funds collected are banked and only ensure all are paid on time team, divided, we fall. be in adherence with what the but also give guidance to portfolio demands. controlling ofcers of the 5 NRFA Most Open Public Institution he National t o t h e Road Fund A g e n c y ' s TA g e n c y operations ( N R F A ) h a s a n d h a d s c o o p e d t h i s always kept y e a r ' s M e d i a its doors and I n s t i t u t e o f books open Southern Africa for scrutiny (MISA) Zambia with a proud G o l d e n K e y r e c o r d o f A w a r d a s t h e p r o d u c i n g most open and unqualied accessible Public a u d i t e d I n s t i t u t i o n i n accounts for Zambia among the 12 years t h e e i g h t t h a t N R FA G o v e r n m e n t had been in Ministries and NRFA Director/CEO Eng.
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