An illegal collector identified as Bisi Adewunmi has been arrested by the the revenue enforcement team of Oredo Local Government of Edo State.
Adewunmi was arrested on Wednesday morning by the enforcement team led by the head, Mr. Monday Edosa, while collecting revenue from wheelbarrow pushers selling sugarcane, hawkers, etc, at the Government Reservation Area, GRA, end of Ezoti Street , Benini City.
INFO DAILY correspondent had came across the illegal collector with Oredo ‘revenue collector vest’, harassing hawkers, wheelbarrow pushers at the above street and collecting money from them in the name of the Council.
He was collecting revenue ranging from N150 to N200 from hawkers and wheelbarrow pushers at the scene before he was arrested.
This prompted our correspondent to put a call across 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 collector and immediately ordered for his arrest.
He sent his enforcement team led by Edosa to the scene at Ezoti and the illegal collector was arrested, as witnessed by our correspondent.
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Speaking to INFO DAILY on phone after the arrest, the head of the endorcement, Comrade Edosa, said the pullover vest wore by 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 colour used for the vest was never an Oredo colour, just as he outrightly described the vest as fake and the suspect as impersonator.
The Director who also spoke to our correspondent on phone, said the suspect was making some confessional statement as regards his accomplishes after which he would be prosecuted at the approriate law court.