Anambra House of Assembly Committee on Public Petition Chaired by Hon. Obi Nweke through a resolution has condemn multiple taxation in the State.
Angel Network News (ANN) reports that the House Committee made the statement after looking at the prayers of the petition from the Anambra Tricycle Riders Association (ANTRA) an umbrella body for keke riders.
The resolution which followed the recommendations of the Public
Petition Committee explained that Anambra government is against any form of touting in the state, and whoever that is collecting any fee from the petitioners with the name of the state government is null and void and should be resisted.
According to the recommendations, there are so many scavengers all over in Onitsha and across the state that the Anti Touting Squad should with immediate effect look into the activities of the Petitioners and get rid of all the scavengers in the Keke riders operation across the state including one ” Governor Obosi” in Onitsha.
The Resolution of the House also said that the Commissioner for Transport should give a written authority to Anambra State Tricycle Riders Association to manage its own affairs especially with regards to collection of fees, rates, dues and that the petitioner remits the agreed sum to the government as directed by the governor.
ANN recall that the administration of
Governor Chukwuma Soludo led administration as a listening government took steps towards saving the people by introducing many measures aimed at
ensuring that revenues are paid directly to government coffers .
The Governor also established an Anti Touting Squad code named SASA with the aim of identifying and apprehending culprits of multiple taxation in the state.
However recently, the Anambra Tricycle Riders Association (ANTRA) an umbrella body for keke riders, wrote a petition to the state House of Assembly highlighting the difficulties and dangers they face in the hands of illegal agents who most times parade as representative of the government.
They requested that ANTRA be
allowed to be independent and pay levies only approved by Governor
Chukwuma Soludo.
The Chairman of Anambra Tricycle Riders Association (ANTRA) Comrade
Chidozie Okafor while reacting to the resolution the House thanked the law makers for standing firm and considering the plight of the masses in their business of law making .
Comrade Okafor pledged their total support to the Soludo administration
while encouraging members to always be prompt in payment of the
approved fees to government coffers which he said was being utilized in
road construction and other numerous projects that impacts on the people.
