Chukwuma Soludo, the governor of Anambra State, has denounced the behaviour of some tax officials who attacked motorists in the state with violence.
A video that’s going viral on social media shows revenue officials beating up a driver under the pretence that he owed the state N37,000 in revenue before dispossessing him of his car and speeding off with it.
Through his press secretary, Christian Aburime, who also signed a statement to that effect, Soludo denounced the revenue officers’ savage behaviour.
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According to the statement: “The attention of the Anambra State Government has been called to a viral video of public misconduct by two personnel of the Unified Hybrid Enforcement Team (UHBET) acting on behalf of the Anambra State Internal Revenue Service (AiRS).
“In the said video, the UHBET personnel were seen dragging a citizen, identified as a commercial transport operator, out of his vehicle and driving away in the same vehicle. Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo did not and would never authorise such crude ways of engaging the public, for whatever reason.
“In fact, it must be explicitly repeated that such behaviour stands in stark contrast to the responsible, caring, and humane philosophy that the Soludo government upholds. So, the Anambra State Government hereby dissociates itself entirely from the indecorous activities of the overzealous revenue officers and offers sincere apologies to the mistreated individual and the wider community of Ndi Anambra.”
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He said that Governor Soludo personally expressed shock at the issue and had directed prompt action to be taken to resolve it.
“The chairman of AiRS, Dr Greg Ezeilo, ordered a prompt, thorough investigation, which has now led to the arrest of the offending officers in the viral video, and they are being held in police custody to account for their actions,” he stated.
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