Town Council Warns Against Illegal Levy Collection

The Rumukwurusi Town Council in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, has warned members of the community against illegal collection of levies from traders in the weekly Oil Mill Market.
Spokesperson of the Town Council, Mr. Christian Nwokoma, gave the warning in a chat with The Tide on Wednesday at the Council’s office.
He said that the warning became necessary following complaints by the traders that they were being forced to purchase unapproved tickets.
Nwokoma warned the undesirable elements never to return to the market to collect unapproved levies.
He stated that the levies, which they called welfare and CSO, were not approved by the Council, adding that it was illegal and warned them to stop forthwith.
According to him, “they are collection #200.00 for welfare and #500 for CSO weekly, which the town council is not aware of, neither did we even permit it. If anybody is caught in this criminal act after today, they would face the consequences.”
He appealed to the traders association in the state as well as their counterparts outside the state to encourage their members to return and continue to do their business at the weekly market, stressing that modalities to counter the excesses in the market are being put in place.
He said, “I’m calling on all the traders including the Aba Traders Union at the weekly Oil Mill Market to please come back and recall all their members to come back to the market to continue their trading.”

Tonye Nria-Dappa