NARTO ALERTS NIGER GOVT ON THE EMERGENCE OF FAKE REVENUE COLLECTORS.(PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE

NARTO ALERTS NIGER GOVERNMENT ON THE EMERGENCE OF FAKE REVENUE COLLECTORS.

Niger state chapter of the Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners NARTO has alerted the state government on sudden appearance of fake revenue collectors posing as staff of Revenue Board who are harassing it's members in parts of the state.

State Chairman Alh Hassan Usman Shiroro stated this in an interview with Newsmen in Minna on the situation he described as highly condemnable.

Alh Hassan Shiroro therefore appealed to the Niger state government especially state Revenue Board to as a matter of urgency address this problem by taken measures to arrest perpetrators of this ungodly act and bring them to book to serve as deterrent to others.

The NARTO Chairman lamented that he was personally stopped by those fake revenue collectors at Kagara headquarters of Rafi Local Government Area of Niger state and demanded for fourty thousand naira from him for sticker in which he alerted the security agencies to do the needful.

According to him one of their driver also came across such illegal revenue collectors at Bida local government area that asked him to pay thirty five thousand naira but after paying twenty thousand naira the victim now called the Chairman to intimate him on what is happening who now advice him to report them to a nearby security agents for possible action.

On ember months Alh Hassan Shiroro would also wants his members especially drivers to avoid overspending and overloading to avoid accident and safeguard lives and properties of their passengers.

While commenting on poor state of Federal roads in Niger state the NARTO Chairman expressed happiness that Governor Mohammed Umar Bago is not resting on his oars in engaging critical stakeholders such Alh Aliko Dangote Abdulsamad Isiyaka Rabiu the Federal Government and traditional rulers to ensure that the Minna Kontagora,Minna Bida and the Minna Suleija roads were completed.