bigpriik:
things dey happen.

FatherCHRISTMAS:
I will be very brief so please Read this patiently.

I went to the Bush to buy cassava, bags of beans, rice and corn to sell in the city.
On my way coming, some people threw stick and metal barricade on the road.

Being a first timer in the business of buying and selling food stuff, I asked my drive who these people are.
My driver told me, they are people who collect money on the road side. They claim they collect for produce or revenue. Some times they endup collecting more than revenue.

I came down and told them. My name is fatherchristmas and this is my first time of being in the food business. They said I have to pay and collect some ticket.

After dragging back and forth, I ended up paying more than 40,000 just to pass through kogi state alone, not to talk of the amount I paid in the other states I have been passing through.

Now when I get to where I am going to sell my products, I will have to do the calculations and make sure I regain all the money that was collected from me through my journey by both police, soldiers and the "producer men".
At the point of doing my calculations, I realize I am already in serious debt due to all the money collected from me by bringing the foodstuff over here.

What can I do ? I will have to increase the price of the commodity to the end users. I feel guilty, but it's the government that collected alot from me just to move my goods from one place to the other.

At the end, I am still owing and I have to pay people for different reasons. Customers come and ask, "why are things this expensive?". "it's the government", I replied.


Tell both the state government and federal government to reduce the taxation on food and other commodities. And the economy will start to get right. You cant over tax people and be thinking we won't endup in debt

FatherCHRISTMAS:
This is what we who are into raw produce are facing that you don't get to discuss in the streets because the regular man don't understand.

When we are coming with raw foodstuffs, alot of money is spent. From transportion to settling people by the road side.
Even Services are extremely expensive now and you will have to pay except you are ready to carry the bags on your head yourself into the trailer. Which of course, is impossible matter how stingy or resourceful you might be.

I hope someone in government sees this. Thank you

falconey:
The president legalized tax collection by touts, area boys, soldiers and police in LAGOS.

Isn't that a general knowledge since you know the man? Now it is a national gesture, in Lagos mainland every bus stop, street, close, lane have several touts collecting tax.