Traders at Igbo-Ukwu community in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, on the platform of Oganiru Plank and Joint Association, Igbo-Ukwu, have charged the state government to court, in a bid stop the government from enforcing inimical payment of Park Revenues, Park Development Levy and Park Sanitation tolls.
In a six-paragraph pre-action notice No. A/PR/98/14, filed at the Awka High Court Registry, the plaintiffs, Martin Eze, chairman and Joseph Nduaguba, Secretary, for themselves and other members of the association, are asking that the court should stop the government from enforcing the above named payment.
The plaintiffs argued that it was illegal and unconstitutional for the Government of Anambra State, to demand and collect needless fee from members of the association, their customers and visitors.
They urged the court to make an order of injunction restraining the defendants by themselves or through their agents and privies from any further demand for the revenues from them.
In the pre-action notice dated Thursday, October 30, 2014 in Onitsha, the proposed plaintiffs are seeking a that the court should declare declaration that the government of Anambra State did not establish any park being used by the management or control of the proposed plaintiffs to mandate any form of payment from them, their customers and visitors.
According to the association, the declaration that the government demand from them, for payment of park revenue, park development levy and park sanitation toll is unconstitutional, illegal, null, void and has no effect, noting that the use of thugs and area boys by the government on association to force out money from them is illegal.
