By Onozure Dania

Lagos—Magistrate A. T Omoyele of an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court yesterday remanded a Lagos state tax officer Taiwo Ajulo to Ikoyi prisons  over alleged contempt of the Court.

Ajulo was remanded  when the magistrate inquired  why he should collect tax cash from sureties instead of allowing the sureties pay tax through bank.

Omoyele remanded Ajulo after he, had told the court that he collected tax based on the bail bond given to sureties.

The sureties were standing for a defendant who was alleged to have stolen 61 pieces of air conditioner worth N15 million, whom the complainant had brought to court, which the tax officer was now asking them for outrageous sum before he would issue them tax clearance.