The executives of Ferry Boats Transport Union, Ogbe-Ijaw market (market road unit), have appealed to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to prevail on his Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Vincent Uduaghan and his director, Lucky Omoniy, to stop what the union described as excess taxation of N500 to N1,500 as ticket levies, and N50 per passenger for every boat trip.
In a petition duly signed by the chairman of the union, Comrade Samson Timbowei, Josiah Oyimi Oyakoghan, vice, Bernard Facah, secretary, Samuel Tietie, PRO and others, the union also frowned at the activities allegedly carried out by agent of the state government under marine speed boat/local boats revenue tax force and their team, lamenting that the tax force has made life unbearable for them and their passengers.
The statement reads: “The act of the tax force is awful, they undermine the safety of lives of passengers on…
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