, mostly found along the highways and at motor parks are notoriously known to be nuisance to the general public. Worst still, they are seen as criminals unleashed by corrupt politicians intent on extorting money from already financially- stretched members of the public.
Before the present government led by Prof Chukwuma Soludo inherited the menace, previous administrations had battled touting with little or no successes recorded. It is as if the more the fight, the more the monster increases in both strength and size. Right from the first day of assumption of office, Soludo’s plans to flush out touts and touting in the State had not been hidden. Aside declaring full blown war on touting across the state, he placed total ban all forms of touting in the state.
On her part, Commissioner for Transport, Barrister Pat Igwebuike, called on transport Union members to embrace the new system, as they urgently acquire their identifications. Just last Monday, the governor launched of the Anambra Special Anti-Touting Squad in the State, with the same mandate of sanitising the State of touts and touting. While announcing that days of touts in the state were numbered with the establishment of the squad, Soludo however acknowledged the difficulty in restoring law and order in an environment of lawless culture.
“We have told the youths to come out from their hideouts and the bush. We shall help to rehabilitate and integrate them into society to be useful to their families, communities, states, and nations. But whether these efforts by the Soludo-led administration have so far yieled the expected results leaves much to be desired. For example, to what extent has the reformed digital tax payment system of revenue collection in the state cut down heavy taxation and closed loopholes and illegal windows? A shocking revelation by Executive Director in charge of Operations at the Anambra Internal Revenue Service , Christian Madubuko proved a far cry to the winning of the battle.
The officers, in a viral video were seen dragging a citizen, identified as a commercial transport operator, out of his vehicle and driving away in the same vehicle.
Narrating the ugly incident, one of the leaders of the protest said, “We are inside Afor Agulu market protesting killing of our brother by touts. They call them revenue collectors. They stoned the man to death. So we are protesting. We don’t want them again in Agulu. This land forbids these touts. They are only good at killing our people. We can’t accept that anymore.”
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