An illegal collector identified as Bisi Adewunmi was yesterday arrested by the revenue enforcement team of Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State.
Adewunmi was arrested by the enforcement team led by the head, Mr. Monday Edosa, while collecting revenue from wheelbarrow pushers, hawkers, etc, at the Government Reservation Area, GRA, end of Ezoti street, Benini city.
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He was collecting revenue ranging from N150 to N200 from hawkers and wheelbarrow pushers at the scene.
This prompted a call to the Director of Revenue Matters, Ordedo, Comrade Agbons Uyigue to enquire why the council should be collecting revenue from hawkers, but he disassociated the council from the collector and immediately ordered for his arrest.
He sent his enforcement team led by Edosa tothe scene at Ezoti and the illegal collector was arrested
Speaking on phone after the arrest, the head of the enforcement, Comrade Edosa said the pullover vest with the suspect bearing ‘Oredo Revenue Collector’ was faked, hence it’s not from the council, adding that the suspect too was not from the council.
Also buttressing Edosa’s claim, the Director of Revenue Matters, Comrade Uyigue said the color used for the vest was never an Oredo color, just as he outrightly described the vest as fake and the suspect as an impersonator.
The Director who also spoke to our correspondent on phone said the suspect was making some confessional statement as regards his accomplices after which he would be prosecuted at the appropriate law court.
