Oredo Local Government Council officials.
The Spokesperson of the Traders, Mrs. Veronica Eboshiogue, said; “Those days we use to have associations but now everybody is after his/her pockets. They just wake up and impose levies and nobody can speak for us. If it was the time of Oshiomhole, when we cry out like this the government will answer us but now nobody helps.
Eboshiogue further stated that “recently they officials came to collect N1000 each to clean our drainage only for us to discover they were directed to come and clear and not collect money from us.” When contacted, however, the Director of Revenue, Oredo local Government Area, Mr. Agbons Uyigwe, said that the increment was as a result of complains from waste managers over the cost of diesel as their entire vehicles use diesel and that the new rate was a compromise compared what they demanded.