{"id":1079,"date":"2011-01-17T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T09:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2011-01-17T09:46:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T09:46:11","slug":"government-to-investigate-number-plate-tender-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/government-to-investigate-number-plate-tender-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Government To Investigate Number Plate Tender System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>THE Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), Mildred Chisi is  instigating investigations into alleged irregularities in the award of a  tender for the production of new vehicle number plates amid revelations  that the price for the plates is inflated.<br \/>\nMotorists, forced to pay US$160 to change to the new number  plates, are complaining that they are being fleeced by the government.<br \/>\nPolice have also started impounding vehicles with old number  plates after the government said those that failed to meet the  changeover deadline should park their vehicles until they comply with  the directive.<br \/>\nDefiant motorists can be fined and their vehicles impounded.<br \/>\nThe interest by CAG in the matter is likely to re-ignite debate  on the way the issue of new number plates was handled and expose cases  of corruption in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural  Development, a document obtained by The Standard has revealed.<br \/>\nChisi confirmed last week that she had received reports alleging  some officials in the Ministry of Transport had a hand in ensuring that  Southern Region Trading Company, reportedly run by a South African,  received the tender for producing the number plates.<br \/>\n\u201cI cannot confirm off-hand what is happening, but I received a  letter detailing corruption regarding number plates,\u201d she said, before  referring further questions to the Transport ministry.<br \/>\nEfforts to get a comment from either Nicholas Goche, the  Transport minister or Partson Mbiriri, the permanent secretary, were in  vain last week.<br \/>\nHowever, Mbiriri wrote an article in the state media  defending government\u2019s heavy-handed way of dealing with motorists who  missed the deadline but did not respond to complaints that the number  plates were overpriced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), Mildred Chisi is instigating investigations into alleged irregularities in the award of a tender for the production of new vehicle number plates amid revelations that the price for the plates is inflated. Motorists, forced<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/government-to-investigate-number-plate-tender-system\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}