Taxation: Soldier, taskforce clash in Ebonyi international market
By Amarachi Ehia, Abakaliki
A soldier and taskforce members, on Wednesday clashed at the international market, Ebonyi state over taxation.
The clash brought panic on marketers doing their business at the lot 2 of the market.
The soldier and some of the taskforce members sustained varying degree of injuries during the clash.
The incident occurred at Lot 2 in the market.
Trouble started when the taskforce members besieged the soldier whose name was given as Nwuzor Elias and asked him to pay N5,000 as loading and offloading fee in the market which he refused, leading to exchange of words between them.
“Ticket people just attacked me at International Market because I refused to give them 5,000 naira which they claimed it is for loading and offloading.”
“I told them that I’m not carrying anything and I’m not coming to carry anything that I’m only here to buy something and secondly I identified myself as a soldier to them”.
“They said nothing concerned them with being a soldier, that I should go to Port Harcourt and continue with my soldier work, that they are also Biafra soldiers
“Before I know what’s going on, they attacked me, injured me and I am presently at a hospital in Abakaliki
“Before going to the Hospital, I went to the Barack and I reported my case and they wanted to arrest all of them but they have run away because they heard about their coming including their CSO”, the injured soldier said.
After the incident, a team of soldiers stormed the market in search of the taskforce members and arrested one of them while others took to their heels.
