The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) says it has\u00a0notifed the Public Protector of an additional allegation of dishonesty against Sanral CEO, Nazir Alli.<\/p>\n
The chief of the South African National Roads Agency said that the controversial e-toll system was performing well, in an interview with Talk Radio 702 on Friday (28 February), and thanked \u201cthe over one million users of the roads who had registered\u201d.<\/p>\n
Alli also said that the system was making \u201cover R300 million per month, exceeding our target of R200 million\u201d and was therefore \u201cmeeting our obligations\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Outa said it is of the opinion this information is a fabrication and misleading in that it the numbers make no sense.<\/p>\n
“If indeed just over 1 million freeway users are compliant (driving with e-tags), out of a possible (approximately) 2.5 million, how is it possible that Mr Alli claims they have well exceeded their target of R200 million by 50% to achieve revenues of over R300 million,” Outa’s\u00a0spokesperson,\u00a0John Clarke said.<\/p>\n
“Clearly Mr Alli is implying that all the invoices transferred from the Transaction Clearing House (TCH) to the Violations Processing Centre (VPC) \u2013 which is by far the greater portion of the revenue due \u2013 is collectable and part of his equation.”<\/p>\n
Outa said it believes that most of this revenue will not transpire into cash-flow for the e-toll system, leaving it short. “There are also numerous discrepancies between the values and targets espoused recently by the Sanral CFO and the CEO,” Outa said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr Alli obviously has an interest to push the fact that e-tags are in active use and not in various store rooms or shop shelves, by playing word-games,\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile there may indeed be 1.2 million e-tags in \u2018circulation\u2019, our opinion is that less than 750,000 are in vehicles on the freeways.”<\/p>\n
“Our research has been further corroborated by intelligence received from reliable sources which back up our claims that as of end February, slightly less than 30% of vehicles driving on the Gauteng freeways were fitted with e-tags.\u201d<\/p>\n
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