I’ll end multiple taxation, sack Soludo’s ‘street terrorists’ – Nwosu

Nwosu

By CHIKA CHIMEZIE

For the umpteenth time, John Chuma Nwosu, governorship candidate of the African Development Congress (ADC) for the November 8 election, made a solemn pledge again, declaring on Saturday, to end the activities of state-sponsored henchmen labelled in several quarters as “street terrorists” – most popular among them – ndi aka-odo, from the first minute of his inauguration.

A palpably disturbed Nwosu, a global player in the Information Communication Technology (ICT), told a group of Anambra State citizens living abroad, during an online interaction that the street terror, which apart from becoming the major imprimatur of the present government of the state, has brought a lot of tears to the people, would have no place in his government.

He cited the case of Okechukwu Akaname, former President of the Onitsha Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (OCCIMA), who died recently after living in a vegetative state for several months following an attack on him by men of the Anambra State Waste Management Authority (ASWMA), describing it as a sad commentary on the government of Charles Chukwuma Soludo and the state as a whole, vowing that such an incident would never happen under his nose.

Nwosu, had been confronted on the issue by an Ebonyi-born medical doctor practicing in Anambra State, who told him that presently there were about nine different groups unleashed into the streets and businesses for the purposes of taxation under different guises, demanding to know his position on the situation.

To this, the ADC candidate, said he would order immediate end to the aspect that concerned the state directly, while collaborating with fellow South East governors, to deal with those relating to inter-state, especially dealing with transporters, who had faced various forms of harassments in the hands of various groups acting as enforcers.

Hear him: “Multiple taxation is a problem that is common, more especially in Anambra State. I will end it in Anambra. But in the areas that go beyond Anambra, I’ll ensure that we deal with it under the South East Governors Forum. I’m aware that in the area of public transport, where operators are required to obtain stickers that they paste on their vehicles that covered them. Once you had that sticker, nobody will disturb you.