Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, yesterday, directed the state’s Commissioner of Police (CP) to stop the imposition of illegal taxes on market operators and alleged forgery of council documents by the reinstated chairmen of local councils on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He said that the development was capable of jeopardising the sustenance of law and order at the grassroots level.
This directive was contained in a statement by Adeleke’s Spokesperson, Rasheed Olawale.
According to the statement, the governor instructed the police commissioner to invite the affected council chairmen for questioning for allegedly falsifying council documents, collecting dubious revenue through illegal documents and for imposing and collecting illegal revenue from market operators.
Adeleke, while referring to various reports of such illegality, especially from Boripe Local Council, said that such activities would not only breach clear…
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