{"id":297060,"date":"2020-12-26T19:16:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T18:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=297060"},"modified":"2020-12-26T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T18:30:13","slug":"ikpeazu-bans-revenue-collection-along-major-roads-to-check-touts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=297060","title":{"rendered":"Ikpeazu bans revenue collection along major roads to check touts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1514980\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\" wp_automatic_readability=\"56.792862684251\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1471521 size-full jetpack-lazy-image\" alt=\"Ikpeazu bans revenue collection along major roads to check touts\" width=\"640\" height=\"392\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ikpeazu-1.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ikpeazu-1.jpg?resize=300%2C184&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ikpeazu-1.jpg?resize=58%2C36&amp;ssl=1 58w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ikpeazu-1.jpg?resize=260%2C159&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ikpeazu-1.jpg?resize=200%2C123&amp;ssl=1 200w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ikpeazu-1.jpg?resize=640%2C392&amp;is-pending-load=1#038;ssl=1\"><br \/>\nGovernor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia has banned the collection of revenue along major roads to check activities of touts in the state.<br \/>\n<!-- --><br \/>\nIkpeazu made the announcement in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Onyebuchi Ememanka, and made available to newsmen in Aba on Saturday<br \/>\nThe governor noted that the activities of touts had increased in parts of the state due to the culture of revenue collection along major roads.<br \/>\nHe said that revenue collection along major roads had been hijacked by touts, who had become nuisance to residents.<br \/>\nIkpeazu further directed the Chairman of Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area, Mr Christian Kamalu, to immediately rid the Osisioma Flyover of touts to restore decency.<br \/>\n\u201cHenceforth, is has become illegal for any revenue agent to waylay or harass motorists or other road users along major roads in the state.<br \/>\n\u201cThe police and other law enforcement agencies have been told to enforce this directive, anybody found culpable will face the law,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nActivities of touts had remained visible in the state despite a law passed by the Abia House of Assembly, and the state governent banning touting in 2016.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia has banned the collection of revenue along major roads to check activities of touts in the state. Ikpeazu made the announcement in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Onyebuchi Ememanka, and made available to newsmen in Aba on Saturday The governor noted that the activities of touts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1245,13633],"class_list":["post-297060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abia","tag-abia-ikpeazu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/297061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}