AIG, ex-NBA-Chair, others arrested over LUC

By Fatima Muraina
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An Assistant Inspector General of Police and  former Akure council Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association and five others  have been apprehended for  running foul of Ĺand Use Charge (LUC) law of the Ondo state government.

The arrest was made in Ijapo Housing Estate, Akure during an enforcement exercise by officials of the state Internal Revenue Service (ODIRS) in conjunction with the state  Governor’s Special Task Force Team.

Though they were not detained but were ordered to do the needful immediately .

The five others who were arrested were whisked away to the special operation square at Wesco -Estate , Ondo state command for further interrogation.

They were said to have violated the LUC law by removing the enumeration tags pasted on the walls of their houses

Speaking with newsmen  during the exercise,  the Director of Legal services at the ODIRS who doubles as the  Secretary, Mrs.  Uche Anasoh-Anabui said the law is no respecter of anybody.

Her words:” Whoever you are,  you are subject to the law. So there is nothing like sacred  cows “.

“Even when we went to the house of an AIG who accidentally is not resident Ondo state,  we were unable to see anybody there because the man is resident in Abuja,” she noted.

While declaring that the essence of the Land Use Charge is for everybody to contribute their quotas to the infrastructural development of the state,  she called on citizens to be  responsible to the discharge of their duties.

The Head of Department of Land Use Charge at the Internal Revenue Service,  Mr Fidelis Fadugbagbe said the enforcement became necessary to discourage various atrocities being committed on staffers of government and subsequent  removal of tags which indicated that such  property has been captured to the state data base.