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Business activities were on Tuesday paralysed at the Benin
Airport as the Edo State Internal Revenue Services sealed up the
administrative offices of the Benin Airport over non-remittance of N15m
“Pay As You Earn Tax.”
The money was allegedly deducted from FAAN employees in 2011.
Passengers that arrived Benin could not leave the airport as the two gates leading to the airport were under lock and key.
Some of the passengers had to leave the airport by breaking down the barb wire that served as perimetre fencing to the place.
Cab operators were also trapped inside the airport as well as other passengers that did not want to leave through the fence.
Passengers scheduled for morning flights could not leave as flights did not depart the airport following the shut down.
Chairman of EDIRS, Chief Oseni Elemah, who led security operatives to open the airport gates, said the locking of the gates was a ploy to blackmail the state government.
He said only the offices were sealed by his officials and not the gates.
Source: The Nation
The money was allegedly deducted from FAAN employees in 2011.
Passengers that arrived Benin could not leave the airport as the two gates leading to the airport were under lock and key.
Some of the passengers had to leave the airport by breaking down the barb wire that served as perimetre fencing to the place.
Cab operators were also trapped inside the airport as well as other passengers that did not want to leave through the fence.
Passengers scheduled for morning flights could not leave as flights did not depart the airport following the shut down.
Chairman of EDIRS, Chief Oseni Elemah, who led security operatives to open the airport gates, said the locking of the gates was a ploy to blackmail the state government.
He said only the offices were sealed by his officials and not the gates.
Source: The Nation
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