Slate80:


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Thank you my bro, he is talking about taxes ,this is the time to reduce or eliminate taxes to help stimulate liquidity which will help stimulate growth. But no, to fund their lavish life style the will squeeze the masses of what ever little liquidity they have through multiple taxation thus stifling any way to bring growth thus leading to laying off is workers and businesses closing.

amuwo1980:

Don’t mind the fellow , he is just talking for talking sake

Igbochief001:

Yes I have checked ...it's nothing ..infact we need to spend more

orunto27:
Obi is right. Reduce NASS Salaries and Allowances by 50%.

orunto27:
Obi is right. Reduce NASS Salaries and Allowances by 50%.

Esseite:
We need to introduce the mortgage system into the middle class real quick for faster trickle to the lower income.. that can easily take us away from recession, poverty capital and expand the middle class bracket while reducing unemployment and corruption.

TalkTalkTwins:
Someone above me suggested taxes be increased, and I'm wondering.
I'm a freelance writer and this government has never supported me in any way.
No electricity, no good network, I spend more than 15k on data per month.

Yet, they use other people's taxes to fund SARS and oppress us.
The Police and Army who fuel their vehicles with our taxes are our greatest night mares.
Children of politicians are funded with our taxes to travel abroad, study and come home to work on CBN, NNPC, FRSC and every other big organization.

No good healthcare, data is very expensive, no roads, nothing.
And you want taxes increased? So the dancing senator can get another Ferrari? That's pathetic bro

SilverNorGold:


My brother, the kind of rapid change you are talking about can only be achieved by a benevolent dictator under dictatorship and not under a corrupt democracy, like what's practised in Nigeria, which brings us back to CHANGE BEGINS WITH YOU.. President Buhari alone cannot make any meaningful change without the legislature and the judiciary. If these 2 key arms are corrupt, there's little the president can do.

Furthermore, the President needs people, as demanded by the constitution, to help run his government. Certainly, they'll be Nigerians.. Now tell me how President Mohammadu Buhari can singlehandedly change anything if the system is full of corrupt people? No matter how clean the President is, there's absolutely NOTHING he can do, that's it. His hands are tied.

However, if more Nigerians inculcate in themselves, the basic principle of honesty and integrity, then there'll be hope, that, at least, some of our representatives will be honest and will be ready to effect change and force corrupt elements to embrace change.

Otherwise, it's not going to happen. In democracy, the majority implement their will. The minority cannot. Only the President cannot. Only a governor cannot. It requires COLLECTIVE EFFORTS..

Only way the minority or the President can enforce change on the majority corrupt lot is in a dictatorship, and they have to be benevolent, otherwise, corruption can worsen under this system.

This is WHY CHANGE BEGINS WITH US, IN DEMOCRACY.

TheBeat:

I beg to disagree. I bet you have never been to a place with working system.

SilverNorGold:


My brother, reread the post you quoted. You will still get the answer to this..

Every other thing cited here is a conjecture and misinformation. Buhari lacks the capacity? Perhaps, Goodluck Jonathan, Obj and Yaradua who "have the capacity" ended corruption or reduced it to the barest minimum, right?

And the judiciary, President Buhari has the power to instruct it to jail corrupt politicians, right? As per Buhari is the Chief Justice of Nigeria and a mobile judge that will go from court to court, dictating who goes to jail or not, who is guilty or not, right? LOL.. It's not a must you argue. If you don't have points to make, read and move on and stop making conjectures.

At a point, you even emphasized my point that the "leaders(governors, senators, etc) allowed it due to corruption" .. The reason being that when the absolute majority of the people are corrupt, chances of electing corrupt officials are extremely high. This is one of the disadvantages of democracy. If only the President is willing, and the governors aren't, the senators aren't, there's nothing he can do. Only a benevolent dictator can achieve the desirable change under a dictatorship system. Otherwise, we should vote in men of integrity and honesty, like Governor Zulum, who are ready to work and engineer positive change. It's only when we have more of such people in high and sensitive positions that we can experience any such change. But here's the problem, how many Nigerians are as honest as Zulum(not saying he's perfect)? How many are incorruptible? What you are saying that corrupt politicians should end corruption, LOL..

Now this leads us back to the post you quoted. It has already answered this. But for some reasons, you just want to "disagree" no matter what.. But it's not a must. If you don't like a fact, you simply move on.

Igbochief001:
Sir I know we must cut cost of governance but for me that's not the problem

Effective taxing system can easily give Nigeria $100 billion a year from tax

By barely looking at banks published revenue and profit ...I was able to see Nigeria is short changed by banks to the tune of over 1 trillion naira year ...

Not to talk about the oil sector .

Or transport sector

Effective taxing is the key sir

Fhemmmy:


Even if Nigeria is able to raise Billions of $$$$ from taxes and Nigeria start to pay their taxes religiously, without a cut to the cost of running the government, it will NEVER be enough.

Igbochief001:

Democracy is an expensive form of government we need like 14 trillion a year to run this country effectively ...that's recurrent expenditure ooh