{"id":14700,"date":"2019-12-18T07:07:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T07:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14700"},"modified":"2019-12-18T07:07:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T07:07:57","slug":"drivers-association-denounces-increase-in-price-of-transport-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/drivers-association-denounces-increase-in-price-of-transport-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers association denounces increase in price of transport documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Association of Drivers in Burundi (ATRABU) requests the revision of the measure taken to increase the price of vehicle technical inspection service and transport permit in force since 9 December. <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14701\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14701\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ATTRABU.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ATTRABU.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ATTRABU-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ATTRABU-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ATTRABU-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burundi drivers attending the meeting<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The cost of technical inspection service increased from BIF20, 000 to 57,000 while the transport permit increased from BIF 30,000 to 100,000, following the measure taken on 6 June by the Ministry of Transport<\/p>\n<p>At a general assembly organized this 17 December by ATRABU, the drivers denounced this measure taken without consulting them.<br \/>\n&#8220;We had to be consulted before taking that decision that concerns us,&#8221; said Charles Ntirampeba, permanent secretary of ATRABU.<br \/>\nGeorges Hakizimana, a bus driver requests that this measure be canceled. &#8220;Otherwise, we will have to increase the transportation fees,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Barengayabo, a taximan, wonders which criteria the ministry has considered to set these prices. He fears that once the measure persists, some drivers will abandon their jobs and consequently, the unemployment rate could increase.<\/p>\n<p>Bosco Minani, ATRABU chairman said the meeting purpose was to understand the various concerns of these drivers. He announced that \u201cATRABU will send soon a letter that expresses grievances of drivers to the Ministry of Transport so that the latter finds solution to the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of Drivers in Burundi (ATRABU) requests the revision of the measure taken to increase the price of vehicle technical inspection service and transport permit in force since 9 December. The cost of technical inspection service increased from BIF20, 000 to 57,000 while the transport permit increased from BIF 30,000 to 100,000, following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[113,500],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14703,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700\/revisions\/14703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}