Any second-hand vehicle will no longer be accepted in Togo in the near future. This was decided on Wednesday by the Council of Ministers.
Non-standard second-hand vehicles will no longer be imported to Togo. According to the government, they are at the origin of the deterioration of road infrastructures and constitute a brake on road safety.
"The uncontrolled import of second-hand used vehicles, out of the ordinary, and their use is detrimental to road safety (a major public health and personal protection issue) and then leads to the early deterioration of road infrastructures as well as enormous costs for road transport. 'road maintenance', said the council of ministers in its statement.
And add: "These used vehicles cause considerable nuisance and emit pollutants, exposing populations to the risk of acute respiratory diseases."
The government wants to limit the age of imported vehicles in order to solve the equation of the "major public health and personal protection issue".
"By adopting this decree, the council intends to clean up the Togolese car park and especially to save the lives of citizens, victims of road insecurity related inter alia to the dilapidated state of these non-standard used vehicles," the government said. .
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