{"id":1140,"date":"2023-03-31T08:19:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T08:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2023-03-31T08:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T08:19:53","slug":"mc-olumo-bans-tax-collection-in-parts-of-lagos-over-driver-agbero-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/31\/mc-olumo-bans-tax-collection-in-parts-of-lagos-over-driver-agbero-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"MC Olumo Bans Tax Collection In Parts Of Lagos Over Driver-Agbero Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chairman of the Lagos State Parks and Garages Association, Musiliu Akinsaya, popularly known as Mc Oluomo, has intervened in the conflict involving commercial drivers and highway tax collectors who target commercial drivers, popularly known as agberos in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has also banned collections of illegal taxes levied by agberos in some part of the state, FIJ reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recall commercial bus driver had taken to the streets of the state to protest extortion by the agberos on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMc Oluomo told us Thursday afternoon when we held a meeting with him at the state council that no driver from Oshodi to Tollgate must be compelled to pay illegal agbero\u00a0taxes anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are only to buy two tickets in a day, after which we will not pay anything aside from loading fees.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe normal ticket sold and approved by the Lagos State Park Management is just N800.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe said those extra taxes imposed at Iyana Ipaja and Agbado Ijaiye were no longer valid. We can either buy our daily tickets in Oshodi or Tollgate, and either will be recognised.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfterwards, we will buy the council ticket and booking for security, which is about N500,\u201d a driver disclosed to FIJ.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that MC Oluomo has said the drivers would no longer pay for tickets on Saturdays and Sundays.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor weekend jobs, Mc Oluomo has mandated that no driver should be made to buy tickets on Saturdays and Sundays,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe union should only compel us to buy tickets from Monday to Friday. We should be given the chance to take something home to our families.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that MC Oluomo also donated N1 million to those who were injured during the attack on protesting drivers.<\/span><\/p>\n

He expressed gladness as dreivers resume work today \u201cwith minimal agbero\u00a0disturbances.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no more unbearable taxes. All we have to pay in a day is a little below N2,500 compared to the N20,000 we paid previously,\u201d\u00a0he\u00a0added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chairman of the Lagos State Parks and Garages Association, Musiliu Akinsaya, popularly known as Mc Oluomo, has intervened in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}