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Thugs Collect Levies For Government – Lagos Community Reacts To ‘Imposition’ Of N100 Daily On PoS Operators | Jehu's Blog
Residents of Ajegunle under the aegis of Ajegunle Peoples Movement (APM) have said it was wrong for the Chairman of Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area, Lagos State, Fatai Ayoola, to impose a daily Levy of N100 on Point of Sales operators in the area. APM said this to corroborate the report done earlier in the week by SaharaReporters detailing how the LGA engaged in a series of tax-related payments for business owners in the LGA. Point of Sale operators in the Ajeromi Ifelodun LGA had been asked to pay a daily levy of N100 (Monday to Friday) to prevent the locking up of their shops. SaharaReporters had reported that the levy was the latest in a series of tax-related payments for business owners in the LGA. Ayoola’s Senior Special Assistant on Press, Valiant Samson Idowu-Alaba, however, denied the new levies in a statement. Meanwhile, in a statement by APM coordinator, Moshood Oshunfurewa, obtained by SaharaReporters on Wednesday, the group noted that the chairman and its leadership in Ajeromi-Ifelodun was far from the people he led. The statement read, “The truth is that the news of this new levy had been in circulation for about one week and had caused so much …