IgbereTV reports that Senator Thompson George Sekibo representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District has criticised Nigerian’s quest for free things.

During the debate on Finance bill which was submitted to the Senate Chambers on Thursday, he said, Nigeria’s disposition to free things makes them complain about everything.

He said reforms in taxation which would see the nation raking more funds to finance the 2020 budget was appropriate.

Sekibo said the founding fathers of Nigeria structured the country in a manner that every citizen wants everything free, hence, they hate paying taxes.

“Maybe this is the way our founding fathers structured our country that everybody almost want everything free of charge’’.

“In some foreign countries, tax is effectively paid to generate revenue and Nigeria cannot be excused from this.”

Earlier in the report, Senate Committee Chairman on Finance, Senator Solomon Olamilekan indicated that about seven areas of tax have been amended to generate adequate funds for the country.

The affected areas include Company Income tax, Value Added Tax, Customs and Excise Duties Tax, Personal Income Tax, Capital Income Tax, Stamp Duty Tax and Petroleum Income Tax.

Senator Ifeanyi Patrick Uba representing Anambra South Senatorial district in his contribution debunked the belief that the Petroleum sector was captured in the public hearing.

“Mr. President, distinguished colleagues, the proposed amendment to the Petroleum income tax was not a reflection of the Petroleum Industry.

“None of the critical stakeholders in the Petroleum industry was present in the public hearing to make submissions. PENGASSAN, Petroleum Tanker Drivers were not present in the public hearing.



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Make laws that will help grow the economy; encouarge foerign investments; encourage local entreprenuership and invesments. Then see if we will not be willing to pay tax. No concrete econmic blueprint + ressesive tax laws. And you open your mouth to blab. Mtcheww

This is directly caused by Nigerians.

The people who voted and sent him caused this.

Sane Nigerians are in serious minority.

That's why we practice kakistocracy.

bastards in power

dont u loot the treasury free

pray ur children dont die as a result of your stolen funds and wickedness

This man is absolutely correct. A commercial Bus driver that travels from Onitsha to Lagos would prefer to stop at Ore and spend N2000 naira on food and some bottles of gulder than to pay N500 toll fee which the government might use to fix the road that he drives on.

imiski:
Make laws that will help grow the economy; encouarge foerign investments; encourage local entreprenuership and invesments. Then see if we will not be willing to pay tax. No concrete econmic blueprint + ressesive tax laws. And you open your mouth to blab. Mtcheww

Blah blah blah what laws are u talking about

State 5 laws u want passed

efighter:


This idiot deserves to be whipped mercilessly.

Really you are the one who needs it ...u want something on top nothing

What cab u do in a state with capital of 20 billion per year

We have over 11.7m cars each spend over 500k to fix their cars averagely a year ....and 70% is caused by bad road ...ask them to pay 150k per year tax to fix the roads then would shout
That'd over 1.7 trillion for alone ten years u have 17 trillion even a fool would work with this money

Nigeria as a country earns roughly 2 billion dollars a month ...and 70% gos to pay salary and u expect 600 million dollars to do wonders in the life of 160 million people

imiski:
Make laws that will help grow the economy; encouarge foerign investments; encourage local entreprenuership and invesments. Then see if we will not be willing to pay tax. No concrete econmic blueprint + ressesive tax laws. And you open your mouth to blab. Mtcheww

This is one of the laws.We need money to make money,the economy is $400billion but what is the tax to gdp ratio? Now,go and check the percentage of those countries you admire.

Observe a good Principle of tax system.

Control the Tax Collectors.

And you will get a good Civil Society.