From Saka Bolaji, Minna
Chairman, Niger State Liqour Licensing Board, Yahaya Halidu, has warned all liqour vendors operating in the state to obtain their licences before the end of February as anybody caught selling liqour without a licence will be arrested and arraigned before the court of law.
Barrister Halladu said the board will no longer tolerate the arbitrary sales of alcohol in the nooks and crannies of the state since there is a law in place to regulate the sales of the product in the state.
He made this known after inspecting some of the demolished structures used for the sales of liqour in Minna, a place he stressed has become a meeting point for hoodlums .
According to him, “the board will no longer spare any liqour vendor in all the twenty five local government areas; those illegal business will no longer be tolerated”.
“Every vendor must obtain a licence and must be within 8kiometre radius from the state, that is what the law says and we are going to implement the law to the letter”.
Already he said the board has clamp down on the major minor distributors because according to him the state cannot be a dumping ground for sale, distribution and manufacture locally brew alcohol and sales of larger beer as those engage in the business must obtain licence and ply their trade outside the metropolis.
He maintained that various hideouts used by liqour vendors have been detected and that a joint enforcement team of the police, the Nigeria security and civil defence corps and the state hisbah group would be fully mobilized for arrest and prosecution.
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