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Bayelsa Assembly Proscribes Butchers Association
The Bayelsa House of Assembly last Wednesday proscribed the Association of Cattle Dealers and Butchers in the state for alleged illegal collection of levies.
The Speaker of the House, Mr Konbowei Benson, said the proscription followed complaints from victims of the association’s activities.
He expressed the House’s determination to sanitise the meat market as it had left the state’s abattoir in Yenagoa in a “sorry state”.
The speaker also said that the lawmakers had received complaints that the leadership of the butchers and cattle dealers was not remitting the accurate revenue accruing to government from the abattoir.
Konbowei said that the association remained ban pending its re-organisation and proper registration with the State Government.
The House had earlier summoned the butchers and cattle dealers but the lawyer representing the butchers, walked out on the lawmakers over “improper invitation”.
The association had confronted the agents of the State Government in a confrontation over multiple taxes and daily collection of revenue at the abattoir.
The Bayelsa Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Thomas Commander, who was present at the House over on the matter, said the butchers had ignored several invitations to discuss the issue with the ministry.
He alleged that the association owed the State Government N1. 5 million.
The Chairman of the Butchers’ Association, Mr Chibuzor Onye, however, defended his members’ action.
Onye said that the association had made representation to the state’s Attorney General on the double taxation.
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