Angeldemon: Most Nigerians dont like paying tax because the governments havent been using it for what its meant for. Instead they embezle it. So paying tax in Nigeria is like just dashing your money to a random man on the street for no reason
Why should I pay more taxes when I have the free choice to pay less?
This isnt even about Nigeria; all over the world, businessmen will always seek for ways to lessen their tax burden... and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
josite: Twice Reuben abati asked him to be specific about how he made the money,the man was parambulating.hevsaid he supply champagne to arise chairman years ago in surulere and he owns majority shares in 3 banks.
He lost a golden opportunity to prove his money is legit.he lost my vote forever.
Oga, he never had your vote at all; so save this your tale for the birds. You're asking how a man who sits on the board of several banks and multi-million dollar, multinational companies made $15m?
[quote author=fyneguy post=106629180][/quote]Of course God is the one that heals. But that doesn't mean you wouldn't take drugs or vaccines or go to the hospital if you're ill.
BlueRayDick: Most young people wonder why Nigeria is in this terrible state it is, well this is one of the reasons right here.
I mean we all complain why we don't have good leaders, why our leaders keep taking us for granted with impunity ; but then we forget we are the ones who empower and encourage them to do so.
I understand the author of this article claimed he's trying to fact check the Peter Obi's alleged corruption against the law, but what he doesn't know is that he has given an easy way out for the man to wriggle himself out of this mess he presently found himself and has even encouraged more politicians like Peter Obi to do this same thing and get away with it.
Nobody accused Peter Obi of being a thief years after his tenure expired as a governor probably because he had all his flanks covered and even kept on boasting about his clean and impeccable records up till this moment that the Pandora papers actually revealed he's not as clean as he claimed to be. Now a lawyer boldly coming out to start explaining tax law just to prove that the man might have done one or two things to help himself to make some money against the "Mr integrity" picture he was selling to us all ; it just looks somehow.
Later we will all be complaining why People like Tinubu and Odili got perpetual injunction prohibing the authorities from trying them for allegations bothering on financial misappropriation if their hands are actually clean; we will complain why EFCC didn't go after Tinubu after the bullion van episode; we will complain why Orji Uzor Kalu is a free man today walking up and down Nigeria on political visits despite what he did with Abia state's funds through Slok...... What we fail to understand is that people like this author that are smart and young will always be there to offer their "professional views" and claim to be fact checking when in fact they are emboldening future politicians to even do worse Than the present.
How can you be angry with the Op for simply pointing out that Mr Obi may have not broken any law? Your post has bitterness and 'bad belle' written all over it. Damn!
Jimasun: He knows he flouted the law. That was why he said he was not aware he should. All your assets includes what you own anywhere. He is a good administrator but please don't excuse this else we will have to give free pass to everyone else. If you own a share in a company, it is a joint asset in the real sense. Why did he declare his shares in companies he is not the sole owner If he doesn't need to declare for jointly owned ones?
Let's watch and see; let's wait for the full legal interpretation. As I said before, I doubt someone in his position would be so careless to not know about something like that.
What does the CoC law say regarding declaring jointly owned properties?... I'd be shocked if someone in his position wouldn't know the law on this. Even the way he casually responded to premium times about it suggests that he knows the law.
Ezewuzie01: Ignorance of the law is no excuse. But I am pretty sure he knew. If he can know all the fake statistics from China, what is so hard to know about the CCB guidelines? Besides, he took his time to carefully select those offshore locations where he thought that those assets cannot be found. Little did he know that well trained investigative journalists are not in short supply. He got caught simple.
“I don’t declare what is owned with others,”, he told Premium Times.
“If my family owns something I won’t declare it. I didn’t declare anything I jointly owed with anyone.”
He said the offshore entity is the holding company for most of his assets and that the business structure he adapted was to enable him to avoid excessive taxation.
“I am sure you too will not like to pay inheritance tax if you can avoid it,” he said.
The brutal honesty in these responses will throw any detractor off balance.
obynzo: Bros you are still very naive when it comes to calculative military strategy. Go and read about False flag operations. IPOB clearly has no hand in most of the activities going on in the south east. Years later you will hear a lot of revelations from maybe a tribunal and you will understand what happened. It took a confession of Alabi Isama in his book that they carried out attacks on Minorities in the Degema area under the cover of Biafran flag to sway public opinion of the minorities in the war.
Okay, feel free to keep deluding yourself with theories and keep running from the truth staring you in the face.
obynzo: It was clear even to the deaf and blind that the northern elite cashed in on it and blamed Jonathan. It was known to them that it was a northern agenda. In the case of IPOB even IPOB themselves have denied most of the killings, including the death of Akunyili and the Owerri jail break. This is a clear False flag Operation, so let us stop throwing banters on this and face the truth. FG and Buhari know about these killings and the end game is to cause public disaffection in the east against IPOB to justify a military offensive
..and how exactly do you explain the trend of IPOb adherents celebrating the actions of UGM every time they strike? Or maybe those are also govt paid online agents making those comments and posting those videos right?
Let me borrow the post quoted below, maybe you could help answer some of these questions:
ba7man: (1) The FG is killing policemen and the millitary at check points.
(2) The FG is killing Govt officials with their police escorts.
(3) The FG declared sit-at -home on mondays.
(4) The FG is burning police stations and setting prisoners free.
(5) The FG carries out these acts in broad daylight and Igbo IPOB folks on the streets cheer them.
(6) The FG burns a school and chase the students home.....
So in essence, you're saying the FG is responsible for all these just to make IPOB look bad right? You honestly think the FG doesnt already have enough justification to go after IPOb, hence why they're on rampage everyday now on the streets?... IPOB declared sit-at-home and then the FG pays hoodlums to go and enforce the sit at home while IPOb members cheers the hoodlums on? That's the logic you're trying to sell right?
Keep deceiving yourself until the crisis hits your family compound.
obynzo: You are amazingly naive. This is a clear False Flag Operation, FG has hands wirtten all over it. This has nothing to do with IPOB this is a bogey operation designed to create a bad perception of IPOB in the south east, Once there is disaffection from the public in the east against them it will be easy to take them out using Military force(Martial Law) without any worry of international backlash based on Human rights violations.
Amazingly naive smart people from the north, not too long ago, also claimed bokoharam was a brainchild of Jonathan to destroy the north and declare a state of emergency; of course we all know how that story went.
We've all sat down and watched how the IPOb madness metamorphosed from simply insulting and attacking non-comformists online, to physically attacking people and businesses who failed to adhere to the May 31st sit-at-home (even before Kanu was rearrested). We all watched and made excuses whilst UGM attacked police stations, killing personnel and burning down buildings; the online comments and videos of IPob disciples praising, hailing and glorifying those acts are still very much visible for all to see.
Now the monster is inevitably becoming uncontrollable and instead of condemning it wholeheartedly, you've opted for the same class of wisdom brandished by the northerners few years ago (i.e. blame it on 'others').
Like I said before, "those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it". May God protect my own family members (since others have chosen to be 'too wise').
joyandfaith: The video is not new, amigo. campus cultism started from pyrate. Soyinka and Co formed the group as students. They were 7. Later on, in-fighting caused division. He created monster called campus cultism we have today. Cultism is bad even in developed nation.
Commentor: With all due respect, you know very little.
There is a difference between a cult and a fraternity.
If Mr. A started a bank in 1901, and till this day the bank exits, then Mr. B breaks out from Mr. A's bank in 2011, would you say Mr. A is a fraud because Mr. B disappeared with depositors funds?
Lazy minds are always in search of who to blame for their woes.
bishop4life: Let me take you down memory lane. Hopefully, this may stimulate your thought.
During the dark years of the notorious General Sanni Abacha, a poor criminal that became a rubie under military uniform, Nigerians were beseted with so many unexplained killings of the opposition to the military junta.
Recall that at a time these murders were blamed on NADECO by the military which forced some of the NADECO activists to go under ground. Fortunately, Dr. Arthur Nwankwo one of the founding members of NADECO narrated most of these events to me before he departed to be with the Lord.
At some point people were confused and some even blamed the deaths on other politicians.
Amongst the slain were Kudirat Abiola, Chief Alfred Rewane, Mrs Suliat Adedeji, Rear Admiral Olu Omotehinwa, Admiral Tunde Elegbede, Oluwatoyin Onagoruwa, Gen. Yar Adua etc.
Fortunately, after the death of Gen. Abacha Nigerians learnt from the horrific confession of Sergeant Barnabas Rogers that Gen. Abacha was behind the killings.
If Obasanjo who came back as President in 1999 did not force Sergeant Rogers to spill the beans during the Oputa panel with a promise to protect him, Nigerians may never have known what truly happened during this period.
However, what may also interest many of you is that at the period of these killings, Gen Mohammed Buhari the current president was with Gen. Abacha at Aso Rock. The same Buhari has been defending Abacha's action till date.
According to Buhari, Gen Abacha meant well for Nigeria. In other words he murdered these people and stole billions of dollars just to keep Nigeria together.
My problem is that many of you underrated the personality of Buhari. He may not be endowed academically but he is a calculated strategist and a vicious killer. From his antecedent, killing innocent people to advance his Fulani goals is his pastime.
We are talking of a man that paid Israeli Mossad to kidnap Umaru Dikko from the United Kingdom.
... a man that supported Abacha's numerous murder of innocent Nigerians.
... a man that sent his army to murder about 1000 Shite members for stopping Buratai convoy from progressing.
... a man that sent his army to murder more than 170 unarmed IPOB members across Igboland.
... a man that invited his Fulani brothers from across West Africa to come fight for lands with their brothers inside Nigeria
How some of you can't piece the recent events together is very baffling.
The balance of motive to kill Prof Akunyili falls more on the side of Buhari than any other group because of their desperation, history, antecedent, tribal objective etc. They may have calculated that a high profile murder will pitch the people against IPOB but they are terribly in error.
Buhari and DSS are the ones behind some of the high profile murders in Igboland. He deliberately enabled state of insecurity to destabilise the region with his political stooges. Their eyes are on 2023. He's not ready to hand over or conduct peaceful election.
Did you read DSS denying the murder of Professor Akunyili? What a plonker. For an arm a nation's secret service to come out to debunk the murder of a citizens says much about the outfit and the government of the day.
If you read some of my posts in the past, I told you that this is where we are headed to. I mentioned several times that the security architecture of the North has collapsed and Buhari and his moral urchins are on a vendetta mission to destroy the Igboland through targeted attacks.
They murdered Ahmed Gulak in Imo State and pinned it on IPOB. When the killers were apprehended they refused to disclose their identity till date.
How many of you noticed that since Buhari abducted Nnamdi Kanu and stopped his radio programme that python ceased dancing in Igboland?
Can anyone explain to me why the Governors that invited the python to dance and the snake to clap in Igboland can't invite the same people to secure Igboland from murderous hoodlums? The reason is because insecurity is in line with their overall objective. They never planned to secure Igboland.
There is a reason for this and that reason is very strategic to their overall plans.
Python stopped dancing because they have moved to the next stage of their plan which is to destroy public perception of IPOB amongst Igbos and label them terrorists at global stage.
To achieve this, they are sponsoring dissents, frustrated thugs, angry Igbo job seekers, notorious politicians, cultists, Abuja contract chasers etc to work against the interest of the group.
Sadly it is an only an IGBO man that will betray his brother at the drop of a coin. I encourage you to visit history. The Fulanis don't have that trait. I concede it to them. No matter how poor an average Fulani man is he will never betray the collective pursuit of his people for money. Igbos will kill and betray the interest of their brothers for money.
Even Fulani PDP Governors prioritised Fulani interest over party interest. That's how stupid, lame and charlatanic many Igbomen are.
How many of you noticed the incidents of armed robbers who left Biafran flags in banks after robbing banks? IPOBs are also armed robbers.
These are the same mindless rogues and poor strategists that accused Saraki of sponsoring the Offa robbery.
You also noticed the chant of "No erection in Anambra State" in murder scenes. In other words, as they were killing people, they were also chanting "no erection".
Only a classical idiot will believe that IPOB is behind the killings in Igboland. However I can also concede that Igboland today is filled with classical idiots.
Everything is programmed by state actors and their local Igbo conspirators sponsored from Abuja and rogue politicians to destroy public perception of IPOB. But they will also fail.
One of the reasons why they kept Kanu back from appearing in court was to first of all instigate public opprobrium against IPOB through sponsored killings in Igboland. They will also fail.
At this stage it is important for IPOB's hierarchy to keep denying involvement in these killings as they are presently doing and stay focused to her separatist goals.
We are dealing with the worst human being and the worst killer Nigerian army ever produced. He is a man on vendetta mission, doing everything to destroy Igbo resistance to RUGA, grazing route and his numerous electoral defeats in Igboland. He knows he is a hated figure and rightly so.
Buhari and his paid Igbo muppets and buffoonic supporters will ultimately fail.
Copied from a wise man
Modified: Please for those quoting or will still quote me, I will not give a reply whether you are in agreement or against. If you weren't born before Abacha regime, please read up documentaries.
As stated, someone wrote this. Whether you, me or anyone agrees to it is ours to deal with.
The untrained Nigerian police has also messed everything with their many bursted false parades of unknown gunmen expecially in imo. Plus hiding the identities of their alleged killers of Ahmed Gulak.
I am out.
The people committing these crimes have been doing so based on the ideology of IPOb - i.e. attacking people who disobeyed IPOb sit at home orders, murdering people with police security, attacking perceived saboteurs, burning police stations and INEC offices on the basis of IPoB's no election in SE, murdering policemen across the SE etc. The violent rhetoric of the IPOB leadership has always been obvious; sensible Igbos (and non-Igbos) warned of the dangers of such fanatical/extremist ideologies, but as usual, the mob of illiterate (and even dumb literate followers) shouted down the voices of reason. Today, things are getting out of hand and here you are, living in denial and blaming Buhari.
You claim these crimes have nothing to do with IPOB, but somehow whenever these things happen, IPOb adherents in their thousands always rolled out red carpets online, exploding in wild jubilations, hailing and glorifying the activities of unknown gunmen, all because many foolishly believed it was the enemy being attacked. Only the unwise could not see the similarities between these order of events and what happened in the north east (i.e. northerners hailing bokoharam in the incipient stages cos they thought BH was attacking their common enemy - Christians). But it was only a matter of time...
After a while, the very same idiots who hailed bokoharam turned around and started blaming GEJ (and Oritsejafor of CAN), claiming bokoharam was an agenda of GEJ's to depopulate the north. Once again, only the mentally blind will not see the similarities between those events and what's happening currently in the SE; i.e. glorifiers of IPOb violence now claiming it is Buhari, DSS, fulani herdsmen etc. that are responsible for the the 'unknown gunmen' in the SE.
Winston Churchill said and I quote "those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it". In our case we aren't even talking of far history, but rather just events in the last decade. May sense fall upon us before the crisis gets beyond control.
alizma: Very soon, Buhari will be out of office, then we would start to blame another person. That road was awarded during Jonathan government and someone squandered the money. What some of us don't know is that before a road rehabilitation or reconstruction is approved, the government go into the history of that road. Someone need to be hold responsible for that road
That road was also awarded by OBJ, and I hear Rochas also even awarded a contract for it as well.
bjtinz: Words. I made similar point at the other thread.
What is happening in SE is a terrible tragedy.
I worked in there (Ebonyi, Enugu) for many years and still maintain the average Iboman smart, hardworking, calculating, and will NEVER support this ongoing madness.
Never mind the empty-headed noisemakers here.
'Is it your business'? That's all they can say. What callous barbarians. Yes that's the fitting description for such people.
You kill your kith, destroy thier livelihood, instill dreaded fear. . .all because of what??
So sad and pathetic.
The hardcore Ipob supporters who glorify the sit-at-home nonsense are glaringly the poor and wretched never-do-wells, who believe Biafra will automatically make them rich. These guys of course are also intellectually challenged and may never be able to comprehend the economic effect of the ongoing madness they support and enforce.
Too many economic illiterates packed inside one thread. The majority commenting here automatically assume the N19bn Soludo talks of is revenue meant to accrue to the state govt.
You and other god of Men demonized the vaccine and made us believe it was the mark of the beast. But now, you want to take the mark of the beast to enable you preach the gospel of God.
If this doesn't make sense to an insane me, I wonder how much of a two-tongued sell-out sane people will see you as.
Behold how this one is spewing trash with so much confidence just to get likes. Kindly point out where he said the bolded...
kingthreat: Those clowns are paid to be writing in defense of ipob. Can you believe that despite the killing of Dr. Chike, they are yet to issue an apology.
Paid? Did you say paid?... If they're actually paid, then they arent as foolish as we all think; they'd just be hustlers hustling for bread.
loveth360: But you never pity the poor ones that was shot dead by your army for just protesting.
Hypocrites everywhere.
So your wise and sensible response to the extrajudicial killing of the poor ones by the army is for you to start killing and molesting other poor Igbos and destroying the economy of the south east?
How did we arrive at this nauseating level of mass ignorance?
gidgiddy: In other words, there is no evidence that IPOB killed anybody and any accusation against them is based on sentiments?
If sentiments become the basis of conviction, rather than evidence, everyone will ultimately end up in jail
Yeah, just the same way bokoharam hasnt really killed anyone before cos no one has been caught with a bokoharam inscription on their forehead to prove as submissible evidence that the murderous beasts are actually bokoharam.
Likewise the Fulani herdsmen militia accused of going on a murderous rampage from community to community across Nigeria. Afterall since none of them has been caught red-handed and evidently identified as a fulani herdsman, then there is absolutely no proof (besides hearsay and sentiments) that fulani herdsmen are responsible for those killings across Nigeria.
No offence, but you're sounding exactly like Malami and the other unfortunate fellow called Garba Shehu. Nigerians arent all children to be deceived with this cheap defence. Call out evil and stop defending nonsense!
gidgiddy: To all the enemies of IPOB, I challenge you to show any evidence that IPOB killed anyone. Show us fact based evidence
By evidence, I dont mean hear-say, online gossip, pictures of dead people or stories about unknown gunmen. They are unknown gunmen because nobody knows who they are. Show us what you have that makes you believe that IPOB is killing people
I will give an example. I always say that the security forces killed unarmed peaceful IPOB protesters. I was recently asked what evidence I have. Below is a video of a combined force of police and Army shooting and killing unarmed IPOB agitators who only gathered at the school field of National High School, Aba, in 2016. This is fact based evidence.
IPOB isnt exactly an organisation where it's members have ID cards or wear uniforms; so any attempt to extricate IPOB from the ongoing mayhem on the basis that no one has been caught with physical evidence to prove they are IPoB members, that's just a watery defence.
IPOB is more of an ideology, not a person or people. The miscreants committing untold crimes across the SE have been doing so based on the ideology of IPOb - attacking people who disobeyed IPOb sit at home orders, murdering people with police security or perceived saboteurs, burning police stations and INEC offices on the basis of IPoB's no election in SE etc. You cant exonerate IPoB from all that.
The very fact that IPOB adherents even explode in wild jubilation online, hailing and glorifying these crimes, including the activities of the 'Unknown Gunmen' (who some folks claim have no links with IPOB), that's already another indictment on IPOB.
Coldie: U mean where was south east senators, like when Abaribe brought up the notion last year about how Buhari wanted to borrow $24billion and excluded the whole south east from the list of projects and both Senate president and a lot of nincompoop internet trolls started talking rubbish all over the internet
But what the Niger senator did is exactly what Abaribe did. So why's the reaction different as though the FG released money for Niger but did not release money for the SE?
Coldie: Meanwhile no federal road in the entire south east is good, senate no send.
Is the senate there for all Nigerians or only the north?
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Apparently a senator from Niger state raised a motion for the FG to come fix the terrible roads in Niger state; what were SE senators doing when this was going on?
Of course I wouldnt ever comprehend a twisted narrative; I dont even intend to... Especially when it comes from someone whose only only contribution to a topic is to say the country is stupid.
Politics › Re: Pandora Papers: Why Avoiding Paying Taxes To A Country You Claim To Love? by obailala(m): 7:18am On Oct 12, 2021
