…move to collaborate with security agencies against crime
Anambra Restaurants and Bars’ Owners Association (ARBOA) has decried the multiplicity of levies and taxes which Agencies of both the State and Local Governments ask them to pay, saying such taxes are affecting their operations in the State.
Tokas Ohazuruike, President of the Group, made the disclosure exclusively with BusinessDay on Monday in Awka, Anambra State Capital.
“Thus, we are impressed that the present state government are improving the state infrastructural development with accrued generated revenues from us and others, but multiplicity taxes are throwing our members into the labour market.
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‘”If you talk about levies and others, you will have reasons to pity us, even as we know that the government uses it to develop roads, create jobs and others.
“We are ready to pay our statutory levies as due, but the government should help us with appropriate levy reduction, and its genuine agents are not touts,” he said.
Ohazuruike also assured the Police of collaborating with them to flush out criminal elements in the State.
He commended the State Commissioner of Police, Ikioye Orutugu for the collaboration with other Security Agencies in the State with the Security Operation code-named “Operation Udo ga chi Zero Kidnapping and Other Violent Crimes” launched on April 14, 2025, a proactive template to assuage the fear of the unknown to effectively police the State.
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“This is a good effort to reduce crime rates in the state by making the police authority’s emergency numbers available to the public.
“We are ready to collaborate with them. Most of the crimes planned in society were done either in restaurants, bars or hotels. They came there to relax while sipping their drinks.
“Here, they planned their activities and after their operations retired back to the same place to discuss how to share their loot.
“I am appealing to our members to always help police with adequate information to fight crimes. If you see something, say something. We must support the police to make a safe and free Anambra state,” Ohazuruike noted.
