Petrol Tanker Drivers
Union members in Benue State have embarked on an indefinite strike over alleged multiple taxation.
Chairman of the union, Mr Joseph Gungur told newsmen in Makurdi that his members were paying double taxes in the state.
The members were said to have parked their petrol trucks along Makurdi-Otukpo road in protest of the issue of multiple taxation.
This is as the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) sealed up five filling stations for hoarding petroleum products and price fixing in the state.
The Tide gathered that the strike which began on Friday may lead to increase in the pump price per litre of petroleum products with black marketers having a filed day.
There is fear that the industrial action might also result in scarcity of petroleum products in the state as many filling stations may be starved of the product.
Reacting to the accusation by tanker  drinkers, the Executive Chairman of the Benue State Revenue Board, Mrs Mini Adzape-Orubibi, said the allegation was baseless because, according to her, officials of the revenue board never harassed anybody, in the area, remarking that there was no issue of double taxation.
Adzape-Orubibi also called on the tanker drivers’ union to retract its statement on alleged double taxation or face court action.
According to her, it was Gboko Local Government Area that placed a mobile advert  on taxation of recent.