Aba Traders Lament Multiple Levies
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Traders at the Ngwa Road Market, popularly known as Ahia Ohuru (New Market), have cried out over the continuous imposition of multiple levies, harassment, intimidation and locking up of their stalls by market union leaders for alleged non-payment of levies.
The traders noted that despite the order of an Abia State High Court that only government approved levies should be collected, market leaders were still collecting illegal levies from them.
Observation at the market showed that many shops were locked due to the inability of the affected traders to pay N2000 as fire extinguisher levy.
It was gathered that Abia State government had sometime last year streamlined all payments and approved the sum of N18, 000 as consolidated revenue
