MINISTRY of Local Government and Rural Development Permanent Secretary Technical Services Nicholas Phiri says the entire Road Transport and Safety Agency now falls under his ministry. In an interview, Phiri clarified that the Lusaka RTSA office would now report to the Lusaka City Council. “When we say that a function has been devolved, we devolve the function and the human resource; the personnel that perform that function. So in this case, when vehicle licensing, when we say vehicle licensing has been devolved to local authorities or the Ministry of Local Government through the local authorities, it means that we take RTSA itself, the whole lot of RTSA – the human resource, the equipment, the whole function. What really changes is...

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