{"id":2309,"date":"2021-07-15T10:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T10:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2021-07-15T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T10:56:19","slug":"drivers-police-standoff-as-strike-is-called-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/drivers-police-standoff-as-strike-is-called-off","title":{"rendered":"Drivers, police standoff as strike is called off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Truck drivers and government officials Wednesday reached a consensus after a day-long standoff between police and the drivers, who wanted to demonstrate at Kanengo in Lilongwe City. The truck drivers raised a number of grievances they want to be addressed by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Professional Drivers Union Chairperson Major Mkandawire said while some drivers were trying to demonstrate, he and other drivers were locked in a meeting with concerned ministries at Capital Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat remains is for us to sign the Memorandum of Understanding but a consensus has been reached,\u201d Mkandawire said.<\/p>\n<p>The resolutions will be effected by August 1 this year, he said. Apart from Professional Drivers Union, Professional Truck Drivers Union (PTDU) also has its grievances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur fellow drivers are jobless because truck owners are not getting contracts,\u201d said PTDU General Secretary Mphatso Mollen.<\/p>\n<p>He added that they also want to renew their licences in all administrative regions of the country, and not just Lilongwe, as is the case at present. Ministry of Transport spokesperson Andrew Mthiko said the two sides had, indeed, reached a consensus.<\/p>\n<p>Among other demands, the drivers want the cost of an express passport to be reduced from K180,000 to K60,000, salaries for trans-border drivers to be increased to K140,000 while those operating within the country should be getting not less than K100,000 monthly.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers also claim that some of them are still receiving K30,000 as monthly salary. The drivers also want to be getting free Covid certificates when crossing borders.<\/p>\n<p>They were further pressing the government to award 80 percent of transportation contracts to Malawian transporters. At Kanengo Wednesday, there was a standoff between police and truck drivers when the police blocked the drivers from holding demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>The truck drivers wanted to protest by stopping heavy-duty vehicles from using the road until the government addressed their grievances. Police officers at the scene said the drivers did not seek permission from authorities to demonstrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Truck drivers and government officials Wednesday reached a consensus after a day-long standoff between police and the drivers, who wanted to demonstrate at Kanengo in Lilongwe City. The truck drivers raised a number of grievances they want to be addressed by the government. Professional Drivers Union Chairperson Major Mkandawire said while some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,7,8],"tags":[233,371,1084,234,1083],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-featured","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-major-mkandawire","tag-malawi","tag-police-standoff"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Drivers, police standoff as strike is called off - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Truck drivers and government officials Wednesday reached a consensus after a day-long standoff between police and the dr ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/drivers-police-standoff-as-strike-is-called-off\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drivers, police standoff as strike is called off\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Truck drivers and government officials Wednesday reached a consensus after a day-long standoff between police and the dr ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/drivers-police-standoff-as-strike-is-called-off\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-15T10:59:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/07\/img-60f014185c5b1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"780\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/drivers-police-standoff-as-strike-is-called-off#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/drivers-police-standoff-as-strike-is-called-off\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Drivers, police standoff as strike is called off\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-15T10:59:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/drivers-police-standoff-as-strike-is-called-off\"},\"wordCount\":329,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/drivers-police-standoff-as-strike-is-called-off#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/07\/img-60f014185c5b1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Major Mkandawire\",\"Malawi\",\"police standoff\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Featured\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/drivers-police-standoff-as-strike-is-called-off#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/drivers-police-standoff-as-strike-is-called-off\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/drivers-police-standoff-as-strike-is-called-off\",\"name\":\"Drivers, police standoff as strike is called off - 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