The plight of drivers in Kinshasa - Impartial Congo

2024-05-26 13:47:44

Gaston Mutamba Lucas

Hell for drivers in Kinshasa begins as quickly because the tires hit the general public highway. Drivers are instantly affected by a large number of dangers. Stupor and tremors! Predators lurk in addition to the decay on the highway in addition to the cumbersome bike taxi drivers and cannot be touched! As if that weren’t sufficient, blind folks beg when they’re alleged to see nothing. They could have a 3rd eye that detects banknotes. Or else, they might odor the cash! Who nonetheless stated that cash has no odor? Anyway right here we go!

There are rascals who tear the mirrors of the automobiles, to not point out the ladies’ baggage, wigs and jewellery… The entire artwork consists of understanding the way to play cover and search with predators. Hell and damnation! On the high of the meals chain are the highway site visitors cops, often known as “Roulages”. They’re usually chubby, lippy, nipples, furry, potbelly, buttocks. They contact loot each day. They earn cash by charging drivers. In keeping with my loopy buddy, they generally trigger site visitors jams. The drivers hurriedly determine to pay them arduous money to get them out of the lure. There was a time when the police politely eliminated the license plates from the automobiles of reluctant drivers. At one other time, there have been sneakers to immobilize the car earlier than it was despatched to the pound. At present within the police the battery. On Saturdays, cops meet on the primary roads and ask drivers for cash with a giant smile. Sapristi! Additionally they extort cash by inventing crimes. To get this, you need to unload your pockets.

My buddy who is aware of what is going on in each nook and cranny of Kinshasa, the damaged down individual has once more paid the value for police harassment. This explains, the police have been stationed in an ambush at a highway intersection as a result of the site visitors lights are sometimes a bit of out of order. Intelligent as a cockroach, the site visitors controller instantly modified course. You might want to have good reflex reactions to brake. Sadly for him! He was instantly arrested. Two cops stood in entrance of her car, one other camped on the motive force’s aspect. They requested him for the car’s papers: driver’s license, pink card, insurance coverage, and so on. All of the paperwork have been a giant shock. He then inquired why he was arrested. They informed him he had dedicated a variety of site visitors violations: failure to maintain distance between two automobiles, improper crossing, rushing, refusal to yield. They ordered him to pay $100 or they might take him to the workplace to get a high quality. They informed him that the negotiation fines have been going to be heavy, as a result of their chief will not be straightforward. They urged that he give them the cash. As he hesitated, a policeman requested him to open the doorways. Two officers rushed into the automobile. It began instantly. They requested him to cease additional on to chop a pipe. It did not cease on the present place. They informed him that his scenario was complicating him. He is also prosecuted for verbal threats and tried kidnapping of legislation enforcement officers within the efficiency of their duties. It was with disappointment in his soul that he stopped and handed over the sum of cash that was being demanded. Hell and damnation!

In keeping with my buddy who is aware of the whole lot, the day our cops cease begging for cash, we can say that optimistic modifications have affected the nation. We are saying that issues do not search for folks, it is those that search for issues.