levy collectors chase school bus into a hole at Nkpor

Firstclass newsline learnt that there was anxiety yesterday at the
popular Nkpor Junction in Idemili North local Government Area of
Anambra state, near the commercial city of Onitsha as revenue
contractors chased a school van into a ditch on the process of
carrying out what they termed as 'operation show your emblem receipt'
and smashed some items at a newspaper stand.
This incident is coming barely two days after the police in the state
arrested two revenue agents of the state for allegedly killing one
Okechukwu Onwuamaegbum, a driver attached to The Lord's Chosen
Charismatic Revival Mission during the process of demanding for the
driver's same vehicle emblem.
The driver of the school bus, a Mitsubishi L300 with Inscription:
"Diocese on the Niger Ascension Nursery & Primary School, Isiafor",
according to the source, was driving past the Junction yesterday
morning when the revenue contractors started chasing him with
motorbike.
Eye-witnesses said that as the three-man task force emblem revenue
collectors chased the driver, the driver, sensing danger and
suspecting that they were armed robbers, swerved into a side drainage
and one of the vehicle's front tyres crossed over the drainage and
punctured.
A newspaper vendor who simply identified herself as Mrs. Ikpe, whose
newspaper stand was partially smashed by the vehicle, told newsmen
shortly after the incident that if the front tyre had not punctured
and forced the vehicle to an abrupt stop, the vehicle would have
climbed the drainage with the high speed and would have pulled down
her newsstand completely and possibly kill some newspaper readers at
the moment.
She disclosed that when the revenue contractors discovered that the
bus had fallen into the drainage and destroyed few things on sale at
her newsstand, they quickly jumped into their motorbike and wanted to
zoom off but due to a traffic jam that held them back, passersby
grabbed them and were about to lynch them when personnel of Nigerian
Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC who positioned their
'Operation Kpochapu' patrol van within the Junction to checkmate the
activities of hoodlums in the area, intervened and rescued them.
She further disclosed that after rescuing them, the NSCDC officials
took them and the driver to Ogidi Police Station and handed them over
to the police for interrogations.
Chief Christian Ikpe, owner of the newsstand and husband to Mrs. Ikpe,
told newsmen on phone that at the police station, the main government
contractor who employed the revenue taskforce men that caused the
pandamonium, begged for forgiveness and pledged to enlighten his boys
on the appropriate civil manner of going about their emblem revenue
drive.
Firstclassnewsline.net