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Africa-Press<\/a> – Malawi<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Parliamentary committee on transport has described the published Toll gate fee by the Roads Fund Administration (RFA) as illegal. The committee\u2019s chairperson who is also member of Parliament for Karonga South, Uchizi Mkandawire reacted to the development on Friday after NRF disclosed that it will implement the toll gate fee on the 1st of September, 2021.<\/p>\n

According to Mkandawire, the Constitution allows NRF to publish the fee after consultation with his committee. However, he said that NRF failed to follow the protocol as it did not consult the parliamentary committee on the matter.<\/p>\n

NRF officials are yet issue a comment on the matter. The rates, according to published specifications range from 1 700 Kwacha for small cars and 20 000 Kwacha for abnormal truck vehicles. Meanwhile, Human Rights Defenders Coalition has penned government to reverse its decision saying the fee is too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. Parliamentary committee on transport has described the published Toll gate fee by the Roads Fund Administration (RFA) as illegal. The committee\u2019s chairperson who is also member of Parliament for Karonga South, Uchizi Mkandawire reacted to the development on Friday after NRF disclosed that it will implement the toll gate fee on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,8],"tags":[233,371,234,1879,1880],"class_list":["post-4489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi","tag-parliamentary-committee","tag-toll-gate-fee"],"yoast_head":"\n\u201cToll gate fee is illegal\u201d- Parliament - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Parliamentary committee on transport has described the published Toll gate fee by the Roads Fund Administration (RFA) as ...\" \/>\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\/toll-gate-fee-is-illegal-parliament\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cToll gate fee is illegal\u201d- Parliament\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Parliamentary committee on transport has described the published Toll gate fee by the Roads Fund Administration (RFA) as ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/toll-gate-fee-is-illegal-parliament\" \/>\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=\"2021-08-21T14:27:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-21T14:53:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-6121132bab8d0.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/toll-gate-fee-is-illegal-parliament#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/toll-gate-fee-is-illegal-parliament\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"\u201cToll gate fee is illegal\u201d- Parliament\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-21T14:27:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-21T14:53:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/toll-gate-fee-is-illegal-parliament\"},\"wordCount\":149,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/toll-gate-fee-is-illegal-parliament#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-6121132bab8d0.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\",\"Parliamentary committee\",\"Toll gate fee\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/toll-gate-fee-is-illegal-parliament#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/toll-gate-fee-is-illegal-parliament\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/toll-gate-fee-is-illegal-parliament\",\"name\":\"\u201cToll gate fee is illegal\u201d- Parliament - 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