The new market leaders, who displaced the existing leadership arrangement, allegedly introduced new levies.
The spokesperson for the coalition of trade unions in Computer Village, Nonso Bethel, said some hoodlums working for the new leaders, started charging outrageous sums.“For instance, as a stall owner, if you take delivery of goods from the airport and you are bringing them into the market, thewill collect N500 from the porter carrying them for you. If the goods are in your car, you will pay N2,000. But if you used a truck, they will collect N5,000,” he added.
Bethel said the traders endured the charges until the traders were asked to start paying N50 every day.“Outside of this, we pay income tax, corporate tax, VAT and local government permits. So, we don’t know the constitutional authority that thehas to be collecting N12,000 every year from shop owners. Those who sell by the roadside, they charge them between N1,000 and N1,500 on a daily basis,” he said.
Our correspondent gathered that things got to a head when a gate erected for security in the market was pulled down because there was no permission from the newTaraba killings: Outrage as Malami spares army mastermind, other soldiers trial The Iyaloja general could not be reached on her telephone line and had yet to respond to a text message on the allegations as of press time.
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