EHIME ALEX, Lagos
The Ogun State House of Assembly has asked revenue collection Agencies in the state to harmonise their operation, in a bid to checkmate the abuse of multiple and illegal ticketing.
This was contained in a release on Friday by the state’s Ministry of Information & Strategy.
It stated that Deputy Speaker of the Assembly and Chairman of the Ad hoc committee investigating illegal and multiple ticketing, Hon. Oludare Kadiri, made the charged to the state’s Ministries of Agriculture, Transportation, Environment, Forestry, Industry, Trade and Investment, as well as the Internal Revenue Service.
Kadiri said that there is need to synergise the charges with a view to nipping the issue of multiple ticketing in the bud.
He said the House received petition from the general public and companies bordering on ticketing, charging the affected agencies to investigate all tolls being collected, with a view to determining its authenticity.
Meanwhile, the Care Taker Chairman, Odogbolu Local Government, Hon. Obafemi Onakoya, raised the view that the Local Government be involved in the harmonization of the proposed ticketing system, as they were the closest to the people, saying, ‘’it is those in the Local Government Areas who bear the brunt of multiple ticketing the most’’.
The Committee thereafter adjourned the hearing to Wednesday, August 12, 2020, summoning the Secretaries and Chairmen of all the transport associations to appear before it and announced that the ticketing by the State’s Parks and Garage Sanitation be put on hold, pending the House investigation.
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