Residents of Aba, have flayed the increasing menace of touts, parading themselves as government tax agents to extort unsuspecting persons.
Indications are that the group, comprising able-bodied men, operated in front of Aba town hall situated at the secretariat. They intimidated unsuspecting passers-by by requesting for their tax receipts in order to make them part with various sums of money, ranging from N100 to N2, 000
Daily champion Mon. 8 2010 pg 23