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Karl Schembri
The Transport Authority’s enforcement officers were ordered by their superiors not to press charges against a private car owner giving a school transport service without a public transport licence, officials alleged with their chief earlier this month.
The officers had booked more than once the owner of a station wagon caught with children on board outside the Theresa Nuzzo primary school in Marsa, but their seniors had ordered them not to go on the spot anymore and no action was ever taken against the driver.
Details of the orders emerged earlier this month when authority chief executive Gianfranco Selvaggi convened all enforcement officers to a meeting at the authority’s headquarters in Sa Maison.
At the meeting held on 5 June, Selvaggi had criticised enforcement officers for not being stringent in enforcing regulations, but one of the officers present charged back that their superiors had actually stopped them from booking the driver in Marsa, while the original charges were never issued against him.
Sources said Selvaggi then asked the officer to pass on all the details of the case so that he would look into it, but contacted Friday, Selvaggi said he had not received the details yet and could not recall the particular case.
“I had called the meeting to see how we can enforce regulations better,” Selvaggi said. “If I asked for any information into a particular case, this hasn’t been forthcoming.”
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