{"id":28704,"date":"2022-12-10T17:49:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/bor-motorists-decry-exorbitant-taxes"},"modified":"2022-12-10T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T18:02:27","slug":"bor-motorists-decry-exorbitant-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/bor-motorists-decry-exorbitant-taxes","title":{"rendered":"Bor motorists decry exorbitant taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>Operators of rickshaws and commercial motorcycles commonly known as \u2018Boda-Boda\u2019 on Thursday took to the streets in the Jonglei State capital, Bor town, to protest what they call over taxation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Radio Tamazuj Thursday, Bol Manyang, a representative of the striking riders, said they decided to protest because they want the government to reduce recent tax hikes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is about the price. The price is too much. They demand that we pay SSP 50,000 in road license approval fees from 6000 SSP and then later SSP 10,000 SSP,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A Boda-Boda rider, who identified himself only as Bol, said they had, however, resumed as they await the government\u2019s response to their demands and called for calm among his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>A rickshaw rider, Abraham Deng, also called on the government to scrap the hike saying it is matching their earnings, and warned that he could be forced to stop working if their demands go unmet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are complaining that this road approval fee of SSP 50,000 per each rider is too huge because if you add other money they are demanding like business license fees it means we pay up to SSP 100,000 which we can not afford,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>One Bor resident, John Bior, also sided with the riders, expressing worry that many young people could be forced to join gang groups if they are left jobless over the fee hike decision.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Samuel Ateny Pech, the mayor of Bor, said he was aware of the rider&#8217;s demands but insisted the fees were mandatory to source government coffers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. Operators of rickshaws and commercial motorcycles commonly known as \u2018Boda-Boda\u2019 on Thursday took to the streets in the Jonglei State capital, Bor town, to protest what they call over taxation. Speaking to Radio Tamazuj Thursday, Bol Manyang, a representative of the striking riders, said they decided to protest because they want the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":28703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-28704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bor motorists decry exorbitant taxes - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Operators of rickshaws and commercial motorcycles commonly known as \u2018Boda-Boda\u2019 on Thursday took to the streets in the J ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/bor-motorists-decry-exorbitant-taxes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bor motorists decry exorbitant taxes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Operators of rickshaws and commercial motorcycles commonly known as \u2018Boda-Boda\u2019 on Thursday took to the streets in the J ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/bor-motorists-decry-exorbitant-taxes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-10T17:49:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-10T18:02:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670681946.69.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/bor-motorists-decry-exorbitant-taxes#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/bor-motorists-decry-exorbitant-taxes\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bor motorists decry exorbitant taxes\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-10T17:49:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-10T18:02:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/bor-motorists-decry-exorbitant-taxes\"},\"wordCount\":277,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/bor-motorists-decry-exorbitant-taxes#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670681946.69.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/bor-motorists-decry-exorbitant-taxes#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/bor-motorists-decry-exorbitant-taxes\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/bor-motorists-decry-exorbitant-taxes\",\"name\":\"Bor motorists decry exorbitant taxes - 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