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Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has cautioned the North against condemning President Bola Tinubu for the proposed tax reform bills.

Dogara said Tinubu has done something significant with the proposed bills, adding that it’s not anti-North. He spoke at Channels TV’s Town Hall meeting on Tinubu’s tax reform on Monday.
The former Speaker insisted that Tinubu has done what no Northern leader has ever done.

He said: ”I want to talk to my brothers in the North; I don’t think this is the time for us to condemn the president and on account that these bills are anti-north.”

“I want to remind us that the president has done something that is significant and if he can pursue this to the end, then there is no Northern leader of my lifetime that has done what the president has done.

“The creation of the Livestock Ministry is the global business around that; the global market size of dairy products will rise in the next three years to about $2.5 trillion.

“So if in the North we are able to organise ourselves in such a way that we can honour just five per cent of this global market size of dairies, that gives us $250 billion and the North can survive on its own; we are the most endowed part of Nigeria.”

PressMyButton:
The former Speaker insisted that Tinubu has done what no Northern leader has ever done

ayo84:
The north needs to reorganise and reassess its economic advantage in agriculture and animal husbandry and also solid minerals. They can bolster the valie chain and increase revenue and correspondingly taxes and levies accruable to states in the north. Revatilisation of dry sea ports is also a way to push for industralisation in the north.

NOETHNICITY:
I hate to speak from a position of ignorance, that is the reason I have not commented on this issue all this while

How can I lay my hands on the proposal

DeOTR:
Here: https://fiscalreforms.ng/index.php/2024/10/04/nigerian-tax-reforms-bills/

ayo84:
The north needs to reorganise and reassess its economic advantage in agriculture and animal husbandry and also solid minerals. They can bolster the valie chain and increase revenue and correspondingly taxes and levies accruable to states in the north. Revatilisation of dry sea ports is also a way to push for industralisation in the north.

Factcheck0001:
Any sane person will know for sure the bill is not anti north but anti laziness n curb over dependence on free money

Isn't it funny that some idiots are programmed to blame tinubu even if he's trying to give them what they have been crying for all these years

Some fools have been singing to our ears for time immemorial that they don't want their resources to b used to develop other regions n here they have d bill to help them remove that n they are still opposing it

No b craze b dat?

N to those who will always destroy beer n ban bet shops, u no go spend bet n beer money again. Go n think of how to make enough u will b spending

The bill will also make the governor's work harder to generate money for their state n curb financial recklessness of politicians cos it will b hard to steal money that is not enough to serve d state