DRTS chaotic as clients protest about service

FRANCISTOWN: The Department of Road and Transport Safety offices in Francistown became chaotic yesterday when customers lost control and became violent. The police, called in to calm irate clients, did not find it easy to contain the angry mob.

Eyewitnesses say trouble started in the morning as people complained that they were not being serviced. One of the customers, Thunu Kepaletswe says that he has been visiting DRTS since last Thursday but has still not been served.

"Those people who started are not even here they have already been helped and gone. They broke the gate and almost injured people with it," he said.  The large white gate to the main entrance was broken by the mob which then proceeded to get help inside.

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