Cross River disowns tax enforcement agents, to review outdated traffic laws

The Cross River State Government has disowned galore gross and enforcement agents operating connected large roads crossed the state, accusing them of extortion, harassment and unlawful impoundment of commercialized vehicles.

The authorities said it was not liable for the activities of the agents, who person allegedly been molesting motorists and commercialized drivers nether the guise of gross enforcement.

Speaking done the Special Adviser to the Governor connected General Duties, Mr Ekpeyong Akiba, Governor Bassey Otu announced a impermanent suspension of ticketing activities and operations of postulation task unit agents crossed the state.

The directive followed Thursday’s protestation by commercialized minibus drivers, which disrupted question successful cardinal parts of Calabar implicit alleged aggregate taxation, excessive ticketing, precocious fines and amerciable parking charges.

Akiba described galore of the enforcement operatives arsenic “faceless and amerciable agents” exploiting motorists connected nationalist roads.

According to him, authorities had convened a stakeholders’ gathering with transport unions wherever complaints by drivers were reviewed and commitments made to destruct unlawful gross collectors.

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