NRFA ROAD MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE TOLLING NEWS A Publication of the National Road Fund Agency Edition No. 004 January - March 2018 Up coming Garneton Toll Plaza E-Tolling Systems Value for Money EDITORIAL TEAM IN THIS ISSUE Message from the Director/CEO…………..........….3 Our Motto is Implementation ...................................4 It’s Our Roads that Build Our Wealth....................... 6 Tolling at Nakonde Flagged Off................................8 Mr.. Alphonsius Hamachila Zambia becomes a Learning Point in Road Manager Public Relations (Editor)(Editor) Tolling........................................................................9 Chembe Rebrands....................................................10 Pay Tolls for Safer Roads.........................................11 Partners in Road Financing......................................13 Customer is always right.........................................14 North Welcomes Road Tolling.................................15 Eng. Wesley Kaluba Ms. Rachel Namukolo Eng. Wesley Kaluba And this is how innovation is spelt..........................16 Senior Manager - Tolling Public Relations Assistant Feedback from Facebook.........................................16 Toll Stations, a NO Corruption Zone ......................17 United Against Cholera............................................18 Women can be High Flying Engineers too..............19 DISCLAIMER Views expressed in the articles and stories in this Mr.. DanielDaniel MtongaMtonga Ms. Eunice Mukata journal are not necessarily those of NRFA, its Business Manager - Tolling Tolling Operations Assistant Board of Directors or Management. The Editor welcomes contributions on the National Road Tolling Programme. 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 Mrs. Micah Chola Eng. Charlesles KandekKandeke Manager Finance Highway Engineer - Tolling @ nrfa_zambia 2 MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER d r i v e s o c i o - e c o n o m i c transformation, which is the very embodiment of our vision, A Sustainable Road Fund and this vision is a true reflection of what we do here at NRFA. Since the commissioning of Katuba, Mumbwa and Shimabala Toll Plazas by His Excellency President Edgar Lungu in 2017, the Agency through the Road Development Agency (RDA) has gone on to construct and commence road tolling at Kalense Toll Station between Mansa and Kasama, Kakonde Toll Station between Mbala and Nakonde, Kateshi between Kasama and his issue marks the fourth in our 2017-2021 Strategic Luwingu and Chembe between edition of our Tolling Plan. Mansa and Samfya and Chongwe Newsletter and we are Toll Station making a total of ten T operational inland toll stations while happy to be sharing some of the What has been pivotal to 17 toll stations are at various levels milestones attained in the year us, is fostering strategic of construction across the country, 2017, and looking forward to p a r t n e r s h i p s w i t h some of which will soon commence breaking new grounds in 2018 stakeholders such as tolling, such as the Solwezi- with the support of all our valued National Pension Scheme Mutanda , Choma and Chipili Toll strategic partners. Authority, (NAPSA) whose Stations. loan agreement with us of Resource Mobilisation is at the K2billion for financing the core of what we as the National completion of three major We have a long way to go before we Road Fund Agency do and we are economic road projects achieve our target of 40 Toll Stations glad to share that the Agency which are the Ndola-Kitwe nationwide and remain optimistic closed the year 2017 with K667 Dual Carriageway (62km), that based on our commitment to million in collected tolls, signifying the Kitwe-Chingola Dual increase revenue base and a 98 percent achievement against C a r r i a g e w a y ( 4 5 k m ) improve fiduciary management of a projected target of K682 million Chingola-Solwezi (185 these resources our rollout for 2017. km), and the construction programme will be a sure success of Toll Stations on the working with our sister Agency, the As we go into 2018, our eyes are financed stretch. RDA. set on breaking new records as we target a collection of K845 Such partnerships which We will keep building on strategic million. bordered on fostering relationships so that we continue to home grown solutions will build on A Sustainable Road Fund. At the heart of what we do is the help us stretch our nets implementation of our strategic w i d e i n m o b i l i s i n g With God's blessings task which we aim to carry out- r e s o u r c e s f o r r o a d based on our strategic themes of construction, rehabilitation Eng. Wallece Mumba S e r v i c e E x c e l l e n c e a n d and maintenance thereby Operational Efficiency as outlined allowing our road network 3 Eng. Mumba emphasises Three Things: Implementation, Implementation and Implementation Implementation, Implementation, Implementation ith its breathtaking maximum speed in line with Republic of Ethiopia, who scenery, celebrated, Agenda 2063, a strategic officiated at the opening Wunique natural heritage framework for the socio- ceremony of this landmark and world-class conferencing economic transformation of the conference and explained and hotel facilities, there could continent over the next 50 years. further that theme of the have been no better venue than ARMFA Annual General the Horn of Africa, in general and This common understanding Assembly: “Preserving Our Addis Ababa in particular, for th was underpinned by Honourable Road Asset for realising delegates to the 16 African Ahmed Shide, Transport Minister Agenda 2063” was well Road Maintenance Funds Association (ARMFA) Annual in the Federal Democratic t h o u g h t o u t a s i t w a s General Conference to assemble and critically reflect on opening National Road Fund Agency up the continent for business, NRFA through a good and safe road ROAD MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE Innovative Financing Approaches network . for Road Maintenance Close to 200 delegates at the five day-long conference, hosted by the Ethiopian Road Fund from 19th to 23rd February 2018 r e a c h e d a c o m m o n understanding that with Africa's road infrastructure growing older, lasting solutions to adequately and sustainably maintain the road infrastructure should be found, and instituted with 16th ARMFA AGM, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 19-23 Feb 2018 Presented by Eng. Wallece Mumba, D/CEO, NRFA 4 Mumba presented to the General Assembly, a paper entitled Innovative Financing Approaches for Road Maintenance highlighting the benefits of the K2.12 billion N A P S A r o a d f i n a n c i n g agreement and noted that the f a c i l i t y h a d o v e r s e e n accelerated road works on the Kitwe-Chingola and Chingola- Solwezi Roads. The Public P u b l i c I n v e s t m e n t ( P P I ) financing model had given the low cost of establishing the Honourable Ahmed Shide, Transport Minister in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia officiated at the Annual General Assembly partnership and the equitable distribution of risks as the public was a common denominator factor in the agreement. He said that under the agreement, three Toll Stations were being constructed on the financed road stretch and toll proceeds will be used to repay the loan over a ten year period at affordable interest rates. ARMFA is a non-political and a non-profit making association that was founded in the year 2003 in Libreville, Gabon as a Ms. Christabel Michel-Banda, NRFA Board Chairperson stresses a point during question and answer session at the Annual General Assembly networking platform for experience and information envisioned that by 2063, the commencement. The NRFA s h a r i n g o n b e s t r o a d necessary infrastructure would stated that its success lay in maintenance practices in Africa; be in place to support Africa's implementation, implementation to discuss and find opportunities accelerated integration and and implementation! on funding options; to promote growth,which would include high and strengthen links between speed railway network, roads, The NRFA was used as a case members of African Road Funds shipping lines, sea and air study among Road Funds in in such a way that supports the transport. A Pan-African High Africa for breaking new grounds economic integration of the speed train network would in securing funding for road African Continent; and to connect all the major cities and development by engaging strengthen cooperation with capitals of the continent. pension funds under the Public regional and International Many delegates expressed Private Investment financing partners in road infrastructure desire to visit the Zambia and Model. development. pick on the ground knowledge and experiences on how the In line with the Zambian The association is in the process Road Tolling under the NRFA has Government’s Policy of walking of being affiliated to the African successfully been rolled out in a the talk, NRFA Director/Chief Union (AU) as a specialised short period of time, since its Executive Officer Wallece agency. 5 Class A: Conventional It's Our Roads that Build Our Wealth few years ago, the term road tolls sounded so Aremote that no one imagined that it could become a reality in Zambia. Many road users felt that paying road tolls would be asking for too much from motorists, especially long distance transporters. But the fear which was attached to the challenge of paying road tolls regularly, is now water under Class B: Conventional the bridge. Apparently, every motorist has bought into the idea with the understanding that the money raised from Toll Gates w o u l d g o t o w a r d s r o a d maintenance.