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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, Kogi state Command, on Friday paraded four suspects arrested for violating the state government’s order banning illegal collection of revenue by any transport union in the state.
The Public Relations Officer of the Command, DSC Abdullahi Aliyu, while parading the suspects at the Command’s headquarters in Lokoja, said the suspects – Umar Yakubu, Mohammed Danjuma, Agulu Yahaya and Ibrahim Yagaji – were arrested at various locations in Lokoja for criminal conspiracy and illegal collection of revenue.
One of the suspects, Angulu Yahaya, in an interview with newsmen, denied knowing that the state government had banned collection of revenue by unions.
He, however, said it was their union chairman who gave him stickers issued by the Lokoja local government Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, directing him to sell the stickers to the tricycle union members before the NCDC officers arrested him.
On January 31, 2025, Governor Usman Ododo banned illegal collection of membership dues and other related revenues from commercial road users by various transportation unions in the state.
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