Kulima Tower drivers to receive mealie meal bonuses while offering free rides today

Kulima Tower drivers to receive mealie meal bonuses while offering free rides today

KULIMA Tower Bus Station drivers are expressing their gratitude to both their customers and the government by offering free rides to December and January-born passengers today.

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The station’s vice chairperson, Friday Mwansa said the free rides have started in the morning and will end at 18:00 hours.

This gesture is part of a larger celebration marking three years of a conducive working environment under the UPND government and the closure of a yet again another peaceful year in the bus station.

“For three years now, bus drivers at Kulima Tower Bus Station have been giving each other bonuses due to the conducive working environment,” Kulima Tower Bus Station chairperson Nicholas Banda said.

Banda told Kalemba that 5000 drivers registered under Kulima Tower divers will be receiving bonuses in the form of essential commodities like mealie meal and cooking oil.

“What the president did in ending cadreism paved the way for peace and helped us as drivers to become leaders controlling what goes around in the station.”

“At Kulima Tower Bus Station we are about 5000 and all of us will be receiving a mealie meal bag, there are bags that arrived but three more trucks are coming to bring the mealie meal as we speak,” said Banda.

Speakers have been set, bands are geared up, even a generator has been brought to run away from electricity embarrassment as throats of bus conductors and drivers have been exercised, to pave way for tunes to come out of their vocal cords in celebration this afternoon.

This celebration is seen as a way to share the benefits of the improved working conditions with their customers coming from a background of hostility.

Banda said the current peaceful atmosphere has allowed drivers to take control of their work and implement initiatives that benefit both themselves and their passengers.

By Moses Makwaya

Kalemba December 19, 2024