₦airaland Forum

nairavsdollars:
Most South East states are backward except maybe Abia

Stephen0mozzy:
My Sister, the government norva care about healthy citizens and businesses amaweh you wey fall sick or dey in distress.

Ambulance services are generally private. 911 (119) is technically non-existent.

psalmsjob:
And add that i former governor Peter Obi even claimed that because people did not die in mass when he did not pay doctors who were on strike for 13 months then it was ok for him not to have paid them even though he kept the state money in his private bank and so we should elect him to be president so that he can repeat on national scale

Wickedfacts:
Where do you live in Lagos?

balisa1:
I thought we were talking about Enugu!

Wickedfacts:
911 dey Lagos.
I have called them fir emergencies 3 times and they usually arrive within 20 mins.
One time, a firetruck arrived in 9 mins.

OSPRO:
That mean you are always having problems.

nairalanda1:
Because you guys do not want to pay the tax for it.

In obodo oyinbo, you go pay income tax, municipal taxes and other taxes, before you look at what you have to spend. That is how they have the money to buy ambulances, and maintain an emergency serviice.

IN Nigeria? You expect a state that cannot spend up to one billion dollars for its budget to have a service like a town in the US or UK that spends far more than that to maintain a decent ambulance service?

A full emergency service in a typical UK city costs between £150 million and £400 million annually. Enugu state health budget is 52,735.84 pounds. Una see the problem?

And before you shout corruption, just know that the budget states get is the money they get before looting starts. Without looting, palaver dey

Wickedfacts:
See how this one dey reason. Something wey person carry for 9 months.
I call them whenever I see emergency situations.

Fire incident was near a car wash where I was.
Medical emergency was for a neighbour. Secondly medical emergency was for someone near where I went to play ball.

BondRiv:
Can the Nigerian government account for the efficient utilisation of our resources? Barely anything works. Taxation is not the problem or solution. The resources are being mismanaged and looted with reckless abandon. You want people to pay for services that are non-existent? Nigeria is a joke and close to a failed state. It hurts me to use those words. Successive governments have failed. Taxation is not the problem, but now appears to be the latest excuse of incompetent and corrupt leaders, including the current occupant of the Villa.

nairalanda1:
Before you start, I used to ask questions the way you do. But see your budget. Only 20% of it comes from taxes. And most of the taxes are not income tax, they are vat and other levies. The day people all pay tax, government go see shege.

BondRiv:
Story. You comment as though you are not in Nigeria. We don't have a responsible government. Taxation is not the problem.

AdolfHitlerxXx:
You think it's a joke when people from Enugu and Anambra do testimony when they arrive Lagos?

nairalanda1:
So, that means that anything that would force the majority of nigerians to hold their government to account and would reduce stealing and bad government is anathema to you.

Come now, I'm sorry, but this is a very flawed way of looking at it. The reason why we do not hold government to account is because the majority are not paying tax, only the minority like you and me.

You better wake up, and stop talking typical ;they will steal the money' rhetoric. If it is our money, they cannot steal it.

BondRiv:
The government can be held accountable, but I disagree with what you predicated it on. The usual way is through elections, but they rig their way into power. The people will have to resist them. It is an unfortunate situation in Nigeria. When people who do not mean well for the country rig their way into power. This is why there is a reign of impunity and perpetuation of poverty.

Nigerians pay taxes, regarding the percentage who do is a different thing. You also have high levels of poverty in the country. So what do you even want to tax? No country taxes its way to prosperity. Corporations pay taxes. I don't know about the high net worth individuals. Nevertheless, Nigeria is rich in resources, how well have they been used? Can you honestly say the revenues from our resources like oil and gas have been properly utilised? Now taxation is the latest excuse from people who are not even transparent about their records.

To your last sentence, they are already stealing our money, so I don't know what you are going on about there. We have incompetent and corrupt people in government who are mismanaging resources and looting our money. It is not a taxation problem.

NinjaMetahuman:
lagos has ambulance.

It was governed by human beings since 1999. Can t say the same about other states.

bluejay05:
That region na forest, dem just dey Lagos dey form woke 😂😂

Wickedfacts:
Untimely death will visit your familee.
Yomoda will borrow money and sell her wrapper to bury yu.
You will die shamelezz and pennilezz, people will be ashamed to identify with yu.
You will be repulsive to your helpers.
Bad luck will follow y9vr entire family.

nairalanda1:
Only 40% of Nigerians pay an income tax to the federal government.

And tax is not meant to tax any country way to proserity. I don';t know where you guys get that strawman from. Taxes are meant to help provide basic government services and reduce dependence on borrowing....with the assumption that that would enable government to provide part of what is needed to make us prosperous. Part of it, not all of it.

You guys want to be like Europe without doing what the Europeans do. They were taxing people in Europe when most of them were broke ass poor, and it forced people to hold their government to account.

Wickedfacts:
911 dey Lagos.
I have called them fir emergencies 3 times and they usually arrive within 20 mins.
One time, a firetruck arrived in 9 mins.

FOXDOSSIER:
Anambra has water and it is the most developed Igbo state unlike Enugu state

FOXDOSSIER:
Anambra has water and it is the most developed Igbo state unlike Enugu state

NGArmyTerrorist:
Govt that can't account for subsidy removal proceeds or revenues, or the internally generated revenues can't be trusted with people's taxes. The ones they have already what are they doing with it. People can't be paying for what they are not seeing and when it comes to holding someone accountable, they will use 50 SANs to fight back. The z00 is not working, everybody is fantastically corrupt from the hair of their head to their sole of their feet. Outside the z00, when you mis-appropriate govt funds, you resign, you account for it, they probe you, if found guilty you go to prison and still vomit the funds. But in the Z00 is like a another Christmas celebration for them, when it gets too much, they will run from governor to become a senator and from there to minister. Case close.