Hotel Owners in Abuja Threaten to Close

The Hotel Owners Forum in Abuja has threatened to close down hotels in the FCT if the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) insists on increasing charges for waste disposal.

According to Premium Times, Mr. Ekong, The president of the forum made the threat in an interview in Abuja on Thursday, he said that the director of the board had challenged the hike in the charges, saying that it would lead to irreversible price increase in hotel services.

He also said that, "As if the prevailing harsh economic environment is not enough, on June 1, the AEPB issued a new billing regime to our members, which reflects more than 1,683 percent increase."

"This is over and above the provisions of the Waste Management Regulation of 2005, which is in the gazette. The said new bills were retroactively backdated to January 2012.

"It is noted that the increase in this new price regime is the highest rate ever witnessed in the history of price adjustment in the FCT."

According to reports, Mr Ekong said that the forum has given the board one month ultimatum to reverse the hike in waste charges, otherwise, the association would hold a street protest after which it would go to court.

According to Mr Ekong, the board had given the hotels 21 days notice to pay the bill to avoid the shutdown of hotels in Abuja.

Reports says that the Director, AEPB, Isah Shuiabu, said that the hospitality industry and other commercial ventures had been grossly under-charged by the board, hence the need for an increase. He said that the increase was not based on arbitrary administrative decision, but on technical objectives.

He said the waste charges would not only be on the number of rentable rooms, but on all other activities generating waste.

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Hotel Owner in Debt- Generators Siezed

Mirage Hotel owned by the immediate past minister of culture and tourism, Chief Edem Duke has been in debt of N52M. According to reports by Punch. Cross River state high court in Calabar ordered the seizure of four of the hotel generators.

Reports says that the four generators were on Monday removed from the premises of the hotel in Calabar, the state capital by Sypet Oil and Chemical Limited.

The hotel failed to settle the bill of N52M which had increased from October 30, 2014 to August 29, 2016. The issue resulted from outstanding bill owed; as a result of judgement delivered in October 2014 by the preceding judge of the State High Court in Calabar, Justice Ofem ordered the hotel to pay the sum of N2.93M to Sypet Oil and Chemical Limited as balance payment for Automotive Gas and Oil (Diesel) that was supplied to the hotel for usage on the facility.

Punch reports that the hotel failed to settle the debt forcing the Oil company to approach the court for a garnishee order to enforce the judgement in July.

As a result of this, the payment have still not being made because accroding to report, Utang, The company solicitor said," This discovery has prompted us to effect judgement by carting away the generators which could be sold after seven days to settle the debt"

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