The Ondo State Commissioner for Commerce, lndustry and Cooperative Services, Hon. (Deaconess) Lola Fagbemi has urged traders in the State to pay up their business premises levies for year 2022.
The Commissioner who gave the charge while monitoring the activities of business premises in Akure, called on the shops owners to willingly discharge their civic responsibilities by paying Government’s levies.
She explained that the Ministry was sensitizing the traders across the State on the need to pay their dues to the Government, stressing that enforcement would follow the sensitisation exercise.
According to her, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu-led Administration has been able to deliver a lot of electoral promises through internally generated revenue, adding that the present administration would improve on security of lives and properties, education for the Children, healthcare services, construction of rural and urban roads as well as other welfare programmes for the people if the traders discharged their own civic responsibility.
She advised the traders to promptly pay their business premises levies directly to the Government coffers and avoid payment through intermediaries.
She also advised them to paste copies of payment receipts on their shops.
Hon. Lola Fagbemi noted that the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Cooperative Services is a revenue generating Ministry and it would carry out enforcement against defaulters in due course across the State.
On the monitoring team were Mr. Awodogan S, the Director of Commerce, Prince Adekolurejo S. A, the Director of Finance and Administration, Mr Sola Obanla, Director of Research and Planning, Mrs. Akinbohun, Director of Investment and Promotion, Mrs Adewumi Aderonke, the Press Officer and other top staff of the Ministry.
