Crude Oil:

The Federal government kills everything. From education-healthcare-trensport-etc. So tinapa is not an exclusion.

naijaking1:

Tinapapa is a victim of Yar'dua's wipe out of evrything OBJ did. If the mugu from Katsina doesn't understand Free Enterprise zone, and Tax free concept it may be too late to teach him. Kobojunkie and other northerners can continue their circular arguments for the sake of debate, but the people who invested millions into that project will loose their money, and other people watching them would never dream about investing in Nigeria again for a very long time to come.

Kobojunkie:

PLANNING is PLANNING. YOU PLAN and then you EXECUTE YOUR PLAN. IF YOU cannot plan, then don't execute. Why is that solution not good enough?

SapeleGuy:

Tinapa is probably the most well planned and executed project in Nigeria's History. The amount of progress they have made in such a short space of time is to be encouraged.

SapeleGuy:

The project is remarkable in every regard except in one regard, the positive nature of the project must be very difficult for the eternal naysayers to accept.

SapeleGuy:

“the failure of the Federal Government to approve the Procedures and Guidelines for the operation of the resort, the construction of Tinapa has been completed and all that remains is for the Federal Government to approve the Procedures and Guidelines that were jointly prepared by the same Government and private stakeholders since October 2007.”

Kobojunkie:

Short time? The project is years old. What short time are you speaking of here. I have to know what you are on about in order to appropriately respond.
Oh boy!!! Is it ever possible that one day, we will instead of blaming the so-called “naysayers” who never did anything wrong but point out possible flaws in our thinking, take full responsibility for our actions and ineptitude?

Kobojunkie:

I don’t understand how you cannot see the problem in the above. Does this “BUILD IT with no backup plans, and even before we have approval right in our hands” mentality really work for any project? Why is it always everyone else’s faults when we do not plan well in the first place?

Kobojunkie:

You state that there were papers to be approved by the federal government that significantly impact the success of the project, yet, instead of waiting to ensure the approval was received first, the project planners went ahead with building their dream. Now the government has been stalling on approving these papers and you think the government is to blame for the non success of the project? Sigh!!! I think it is best I allow you believe as you will cause I see this going nowhere.

babapupa:

Point blank,

Hausa boys are stalling developments in the south, they've been pulling the same stunts for decades. They stalled and killed Lagos state's 1st metro rail attempt in 1977, they eve tried to pull the same nonsense with the Eko Atlantic city project. Luckily, lagos of today is full of leaders with balls, great vision and determination, they're finding it difficult to mess with lagos now because the state is hip to the hausa boys BS, Fashola is running circles around them and getting things done. The problem in the SS and SE is a little complicated because the leaders are part of the corrupt and useless system, they sold their souls to the hausa boys, they have no independence and are willing to carry water bottles for their political masters in Abuja @ the expense of their people.

Too bad some elements in the east are still preoccupied and distracted with nonsense like MASSOB/Biafra, they're getting left behind because the leaders don't give a rats ass about MASSOB/Biafra, they are busy dancing with the devil and lining their pockets, sacrificing needed development and all the good stuff.

Right now, for any state in Nigeria to advance and develop, they have to develop some kind of pseudo independence and walk their way around Abuja, nothing is gonna happen with your leaders in their pockets, you just can't do shit.

nex:

In the original plan for Tinapa, they forgot to include a hospital, clinic or sick bay. So if anything had happened to anyone there, the person would most likely die.

I don't know if they've corrected that.

I have no problem with Tinapa in fact, I believe Donald Duke is the best governor Nigeria has seen. However, Liyel Imoke odds to sit with Duke and extensively discuss this Tinapa thing because I believe Imoke does not really know the purpose which Tinapa was to serve.

@Sapeleguy

what did I dismiss?  APPROVED ACTIVITY is clearly mentioned in the Tinapa regulations.

You people keep mentioning the fact that it is an EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE,  but you refuse to agree to what EPZ means. It means ship in resource or raw materials, manufacture or assemble, then ship out.

The trade fairers were not doing that. They imported finished goods, sold them to Nigerians and the buyers were taking them home.  Has EXPORT been PROCESSED in that manner?

You have no clue that what they FG is doing there is protecting our interest.

Manufacturers in Nigeria pay tax. VAT, import duty, corporate tax, even income tax. Do you know what will happen to all these many jobs will be lost if the FG allows us to convert Tinapa from an Export Processing Zone to an IMPORT DUTY FREE ZONE?!

Please now, Nigerians if we won't help ourselves, at least let us allow another person to help us.

So how will Tinapa create jobs if nothing is going to be processed for export? Is it the sales boys that will be in shopping malls that is the massive job creation?

Tell me how revenue will be generated when companies come from abroad, do not pay any licence fee, import goods without paying import duty, sell to Nigerians without remitting any VAT, then repatriate the money they make back to their country. How is revenue now generated for the state or nation?

Do you believe that is what is done in Dubai?

Please, let's help ourselves. Do the right thing.

oyinda.:

the shops in tinapa were expecting not to pay import duties? why did they think it was their right not to pay taxes? 

naijaking1:

I hope people at Abuja will let this project see the light of day. Those that don't understand the meaning of tax-free one or export free one ought to learn the meaning before shutting down the Tinapa project.

A lifeline could be on the way for the moribund Tinapa business and leisure project in Calabar, Cross River State, as President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday promised that his administration will not allow the N75 billion shopping complex to rot away.

Addressing PDP presidential campaign rally at the U.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar, the president said the project executed by the Donald Duke administration holds a lot of promise for Nigeria’s commerce and tourism that it will be supported totally to reap the fruit of its investment.

jaguda:

@ Kobojunkie, have u been to Tinapa? Do not understand what you are saying? are u saying the Duke Admin. was wrong to embark on the project or that it is okay for Imoke govt to abandon the project? or u fail to see the big picture for Calabar, as a tourist/shopping destination? Do you even have an inkling about the idea behind Tinapa/Carnival/tourism project? or must u comment on every thread for the sake of hearing yourself?

Dede1:

The argument for or against TINAPA and trade terminologies such as EPZ, FTZ or TFZ would have made sense if Nigeria is a country. It is really funny that people are trying very hard to associate humanly protocols for exchange of goods and services with a jungle such as Nigeria.

Dis Guy:

lol the people in Abuja are also the people from all these places where 'abuja' is deliberately stunting their growth!

Federal government to bail out Tinapa


http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5681843-146/story.csp


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