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Re: Why Do You Say Tinubu Is Unelectable? by seunmsg(m): 10:58am On Mar 30, 2022 |
tekjansen2: Like I told you earlier, no responsible government will leave pricing of power entirely to private sector. There must be some regulatory control. Labour and opposition movement will burn down the country if subsidies are completely eliminated. Again, the income level in Nigeria is too low to allow citizens pay actual value for power services. A gradual reduction like government is doing in the power sector is still the best approach. On Lagos being dirty, very true but I’m sure you did not know Lagos before 1999. There was a dump site on every single street with everywhere smelling. It was Tinubu that fixed the problem with the introduction of LAWMA and PSP. Again, the LAWMA and PSP initiative of Tinubu has been replicated in FCT and so many other states. Lagos is still dirty but it is no longer what it used to be. Lots of work still need to be done by successive governments. On revenue, Lagos state can only keep expanding the tax net to bring more people into the system. So many Lagosians are still not paying tax. If you want taxes increased just to generate more revenue, people will revolt. Again, you must understand that we operate a federal structure where most of the corporate taxes goes into the federation account. Maybe if the Supreme Court judgement on VAT goes in favour of state governments, Lagos state revenue can improve significantly. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Why Do You Say Tinubu Is Unelectable? by Nobody: 11:15am On Mar 30, 2022 |
seunmsg: So, all of you should stop complaining about the bad power you have then. And I am not being sarcastic. We have a working GSM sector because the GSM sector was allowed to charge crazy prices for their services...which enabled them to earn crazy profits...to build the infrastructure that supports my being able to use the internet from almost anywhere...compared to 19 years ago when I had to go find an internet cafe to browse, and also make international calls, when 38 years ago, to make international call, you had to go to a phone exchange to do so. We have bad power because we don't pay the kind of money we need to get 24 hour power. Countries that have 24 hour power also have poor people and rising cost of living. Yet they have power because they pay for it. Not because they pay below the cost of prodcution Labour should face reality. Unless you have 30 billion dollars lying around somewhere...apart from our budget and forex...or unless you have imaginary money...or want us to take more loans.....money for fixing power has to come from our pockets. Same as GSM was fixed. At the end of the day, power has to be run as a business , not at a loss. And we have thrown away billions in subsidies on power...and nothing has improved. Again, the income level in Nigeria is too low to allow citizens pay actual value for power services. A gradual reduction like government is doing in the power sector is still the best approach. So, what if you were selling shoes at N40000 a pair and I came and said to you 'The income level in Nigeria is too low to allow citizens to pay actual value for your shoes, therefore you must sell shoes at N5000 a pair? Where would you get your money to pay the manufacturer, supplier, and transporter of the shoes from? From your imaginary pot of gold naira notes (apologies for being caustic)? Same for power. Where are the power companies going to get money to pay the GENCOS, the Transmission comapnies, and for things like improvements? And worker welfare...especially as they employ workers with families and dependents...how would they be able to, for example, provide increases in salary, staff welfare, employ more staff? And the power supply infrastructure needs improvement too> If you keep hiding behind poverty....you won't get things done. And you will drive out investment. Either we pay for servicies so that they can run well, or we don't. Or are you going to start refusing to pay for foodstuffs, or refuse to pay the carpenter or mechanic who does some work for you 'because we Nigerians are too poor to pay full value for service'? Do the people who make equipment for power supply, or the people who install and build it deserve to be underpaid because 'Nigerians are too poor to pay full value for service'? Would you take half salary because 'Nigerians are too poor to pay full value for service'.?(or pay no tax if you work as a civil servant?) Let's face reality. THINGS COST MONEY. And we cannot pretend they do not. And Lord knows, as the leftist I am at heart, how much that hurts me. On Lagos being dirty, very true but I’m sure you did not know Lagos before 1999. There was a dump site on every single street with everywhere smelling. It was Tinubu that fixed the problem with the introduction of LAWMA and PSP. Again, the LAWMA and PSP initiative of Tinubu has been replicated in FCT and so many other states. Lagos needs far more money than it earns right now...not just the state, the city too. And if Tinubu, and in fairness our other PDP contenders and other party contenders don't face that reality, we won't get there Plus VAT won't solve the problem. There remains the problem that most people don't pay INCOME TAX...to the state and federal government. We all rely on oil...which is why I am pissed with PDP and APC....they have no comprehensive plan to get us off oil...and after over 20 years of democracy, our budget is still pegged to oil. And oil prices are going to fall....forget this spat between Ukraine and Russia...and where will we be? |
Re: Why Do You Say Tinubu Is Unelectable? by West1side: 11:19am On Mar 30, 2022 |
Same name age origin he used to win his seat a senator even before 1999. Many of you Igbos are cursed beyond redemption with chronic bigotry and an irredeemable level foolishness. It is with that foolishness you will perish if it it not what will kill you. gidgiddy: |
Re: Why Do You Say Tinubu Is Unelectable? by gidgiddy: 12:18pm On Mar 30, 2022 |
West1side: By the way, did Tinubu need diapers before or after he won that elections in 1999? Tell your useless Jagaban that we Igbos are not going to welcome his fake campaign in Igboland that is as fake as his brown teeth |
Re: Why Do You Say Tinubu Is Unelectable? by LordIsaac(m): 3:28pm On Mar 30, 2022 |
tekjansen2:As can be said for all the candidates that have what it takes to win a Nigerian election, unfortunately. |
Re: Why Do You Say Tinubu Is Unelectable? by Truvelisback(m): 4:18pm On Mar 30, 2022 |
Tinubu is only going there to embezzle wealth for his unborn Children to come. |
Re: Why Do You Say Tinubu Is Unelectable? by tsdarkside(m): 7:01pm On Mar 30, 2022 |
Dsalvo: subtile.... |
Re: Why Do You Say Tinubu Is Unelectable? by Nobody: 8:01pm On Mar 30, 2022 |
gidgiddy: Lol. What concerns a diehard IPOB captain like you with who becomes President of the "Zoo". Thank God I am Yoruba. It must be terrible for anyone to be as confused and as unprincipled as you guys are. |
Re: Why Do You Say Tinubu Is Unelectable? by richie240: 8:40pm On Mar 30, 2022 |
seunmsg:Hehehehehe.....see epistle o, hian! Who told u they don't want ABAT bcus of (d lack of) any of these sterling qualities u outlined biko, ehn? Know this and know peace, ABAT will NEVER sell in their ears bcus he doesn't possess d greatest quality valued by them>>>> His tribe. Dassol! ![]() |
Re: Why Do You Say Tinubu Is Unelectable? by logicalman: 9:16pm On Mar 30, 2022 |
gidgiddy: Are you sure that this Tinubu is the real tinubu. |
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