Drivers block Onitsha -Enugu expressway
No fewer than 1,000 tipper drivers in Anambra state on Tuesday blocked the Onitsha -Enugu expressway, protesting alleged imposition of taxes, intimidation and violation of Court judgement in the agents of state government.
The came with placards bearing different inscriptions like “Governor Obiano rescue us from the hands of illegal agents of government”, “we are not slaves”, ” we want to take care of our business without interference” and “respect Court judgements” among others. But it was learnt the current administration allegedly tax them N700 and N1400 per a trip of laterite, gravel, sands or stones.As a result, they approached a Federal High court sitting in Awka in a suit number FHC/AWK/CS/104/2017.
Rather, it was employing the services of law enforcement agents in intimidating and harassing his members to be paying the ‘obnoxious’ tax. Acccording to him, “it negates section 4, section 4 and item 39 in the Exclusive Legislative List in the second schedule of the constitution of federal republic of Nigeria 1999”
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