Oyo Govt Shuts Obasanjo Farms,Petrol Stations,And Publishing Houses Over Unpaid Levies..

Oyo State Government on Tuesday shut down the business premises of Obasanjo Farms, located at Oluyole Industrial Estate, Ibadan and MRS Oil in Ibadan, the state capital city as part its continued exercise to get companies and corporate organisations pay their environmental levies.

 Obasanjo farm is one of the sixteen business organisations that were sealed for defaulting in the payment of the environmental development levy due to the state government.

The exercise, which began on Monday, was carried out by the combined task force teams of the Oyo State Inter-ministerial Enforcement Unit and coordinated by the Oyo State Board of Internal Revenue which saw branches of some banks also sealed.

Locations visited by the task force team included: Dugbe, Eleyele, Podo, Challenge and Onireke areas of the state capital.

Some of the other firms affected in the seal up by the task force team on Tuesday included Black Horse, Heinemann Educational Books, Lister Flour Mills, and University Press Limited.

Others were Evans Brother, Brooking House, Group Medical hospital at Mokola, Butterfield bakery, Chicken Republic and Rasmed publicity.

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