 While the state government has been asked to address critical issues affecting the growth of businesses in the state, according to the first vice president of the South-South Chamber of Commerce, business owners are having to pay multiple taxes among other issues. Our correspondent, JCC, completes this report. Business owners in Biosy state are often faced with the challenge of inadequate power to run their businesses. But despite this, the allegation of multiple taxation by agencies of government surface. The South-South Chamber of Commerce is among groups who have recorded this complaint. You can see one ministry or two, three ministries carrying out the same function. The environmental sanitation will come for their own taxes, perhaps like this. The minister of environment will come, the minister of health will come, then the local government will come for the same purpose. And why is it so? Because it is not a structure, because businesses are not thriving. The simple definition of tax is payment of services rendered by government. So what are the services the government is rendering? Reacting to this, the special adviser to the state governor on inter-party relations claims otherwise. All business premises are tax assessed, first of all. Then what is reasonable for you to pay taxes given to you? And when will be receipt to be given to you? If you know of somebody who complained of multiple taxation, then some earlier men organized, all their boys are organized into one living name under the guise of one agency or another. The government is asked to create wealth through massive agriculture. And I think that the first thing maybe government should do is to do a mapping of the resources. Several of them we are well, for instance, we know that we are primarily the fishermen. But how much of fish is being traded within our shores or within our state? We are farmers. Nigeria used to be the world largest producer of cassava. And Bilesha State also produces cassava. We have capacity to produce rice. How much of all of these is happening? Government needs to harness this. I do not think that Bilesha State has been able to harness its resources by up to 20 or more percent. So that's an area that government needs to really look at. And to work in synergy with the private sector. With several other factors set to be including the growth of businesses in the state, there's the belief that Bilesha is a good environment for investors. Just CEC, plus TV News.