ChimaAdeoye:


Truth be told, Gov. Soludo is doing his best to transform Anambra cities from near slums into some of the best liveable cities in Nigeria. Yes, he does not have too much money to do everything that needs to be done or to use Julius Berger to do it, but you can clearly see his vision in re-designing and re-making Anambra key cities into well-deserved modern urban centers.

My only prayer for Gov. Soludo is to stay the course and continue close supervision to ensure that the contractors meet the stated goals. He will be the greatest Anambra Governor if he manages to achieve liveable urban centers in Anambra cities that had hitherto been known to be very very poorly planned and suffocatingly congested with illegal street markets everywhere. Especially along the few tarred roads within those cities.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oir3kexdJ88

ANSMEDIA:
𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓: 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 (𝐈𝐆𝐑) 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐.

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ChimaAdeoye:


Hopefully, the anti-touting efforts and other strategies to streamline IGR collection will yield fruit and block the massive leakages in the system. Anambra with the volume of commercial activities in just its key urban centers of Onitsha, Nnewi, Awka, and Ekwulobia should be performing somewhere ranked between Delta and Oyo.

I am glad that efforts made to block obvious leakages of IGR through the removal of touts in IGR collection and increased use of POS payment systems have shown progress. But a lot still needs to be done in this area to capture at least 75% of government revenue.

abuzz33:


In this digital era, states are in a haste to setup tax identification systems to tax payers without looking at the other role of government which is SERVICE DELIVERY!

An ID should not just be for tax payments but for social benefits. An Id for a child for example can be used to gift and track subsidized school fees, track immunizations, etc. An ID for a mother can deliver public antenatal care, drugs, etc. For residents it can provide access to subsidized state transport.

An ID system should provide govt not just with a view on IGR but a fine grained view on how public services are delivered.

I want to see charts not on IGR but how much each state spends per resident on education, health, waste collection, on roads, water, etc.

ChimaAdeoye:




You made a good point about having a tax ID system that also qualifies residents for some social benefits such as free or subsidized ante-natal or other medical services. This is an excellent proposition in a country where proper identification of individuals exists and the people honestly want to pay their taxes to support the overall good of the society. That atmosphere is still very much lacking in our society. The issue of properly identifying people and preventing people from using other people's tax ID numbers to obtain services remains a huge challenge. Perhaps with the NIN or BVN numbers, individuals can be properly identified. However, I still see a lot of room to use other people's NIN or BVN to access services by those who are not paying taxes.

There is still a huge mistrust of government and its institutions, especially in the hitherto neglected commercial cities that were never state capitals. Thus, people in commercial cities resist paying taxes no matter how little. Can you believe that Enugu City (not Enugu STATE) generates more IGR than Aba or Onitsha commercial cities? Meanwhile, Enugu city has just about 20 to 30 percent of the volume of commercial activities in Onitsha or Aba.

The biggest challenge in Anambra and Abia states is that an average trader absolutely hates to pay even one kobo in taxes to the government. This attitude perhaps started in the past when successive governments neglected the commercial urban centers of Aba and Onitsha. Thus, the traders also resolved never to pay any taxes to the government. However in the current dispensation, we have seen these two states begin to pay massive attention to their commercial cities, thus it is time for traders to reciprocate the gesture and begin to pay their fair share of taxes.

Soludo will be one of the greatest Anambra governors if he succeeds in the current effort to rebuild the hitherto forgotten major roads, especially in the commercial cities of Onitsha and Nnewi. This will revitalize the commercial cities and make Anambra an indeed liveable homeland.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKYg30RX0Zc

abuzz33:


The focus on tax without benefits is why people don't pay tax. Tell the Onitsha trader that all tax goes to a pot called Onitsha Roads, another pot called Schools in Onitsha and another called health care centers and public hospitals in Onitsha and watch people pay. That's called bringing govt closer to the people.

Same goes for Awka, you have estates like Udoka, Ngozika with multi million naira homes and rubbish roads. But if you charged every property in those estates a one time road development fee of 2m and an annual road maintenance fee of 100,000 a year then those estates would have befitting roads.

You cannot tax cities to build rural roads or bridges in the middle of nowhere. Tax should stay local. Markets should be taxed to evacuated their rubbish, police the perimeter not taking it from FAAC. Same goes for commercial roads. All shops along those roads should be taxed to clear the gutters then they would not be so filthy

abuzz33:


The focus on tax without benefits is why people don't pay tax. Tell the Onitsha trader that all tax goes to a pot called Onitsha Roads, another pot called Schools in Onitsha and another called health care centers and public hospitals in Onitsha and watch people pay. That's called bringing govt closer to the people.

Same goes for Awka, you have estates like Udoka, Ngozika with multi million naira homes and rubbish roads. But if you charged every property in those estates a one time road development fee of 2m and an annual road maintenance fee of 100,000 a year then those estates would have befitting roads.

You cannot tax cities to build rural roads or bridges in the middle of nowhere. Tax should stay local. Markets should be taxed to evacuated their rubbish, police the perimeter not taking it from FAAC. Same goes for commercial roads. All shops along those roads should be taxed to clear the gutters then they would not be so filthy

ChimaAdeoye:


Yes, we are saying the same thing. If the traders in these commercial cities are convinced that their taxes are used to fix their roads, hospitals or schools, and they are not stolen or diverted to other towns as it was done in the previous regimes. The traders should reciprocate the good gesture by supporting government through paying taxes.

If these hitherto forgotten and abandoned commercial cities are now being massively rehabilitated and rebuilt, government deserves to be supported in continuing this new developmental strategy that now includes our commercial cities. Not just developing only the state capital while the commercial cities contribute the IGR for it.

abuzz33:

Awka has not seen the type of infrastructural development that befits a state capital outside cosmetics. Onitsha till date still has far better and a wider road network than Awka.
So the question is what has ANSG done with its capex year in and year out. It is why I think a very different approach is needed. I advocated before for agencies like ACTDA to run the cities totally funded by locally generated tax and state counterpart funding. If 30 billion is raised from Onitsha by Onitsha Capital Development Agency then let it be spent there. Roads are ancient technology. What you need are competent city managers who live and breathe in those cities because they know what and where the problems are.If we follow this vested approach you would see better and more creative tax collection and utilisation LOCALLY.

ANSMEDIA:
𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓: 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 (𝐈𝐆𝐑) 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐.

📸The Cable Index

ANSMEDIA:
𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓: 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 (𝐈𝐆𝐑) 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐.

📸The Cable Index

abuzz33:


In this digital era, states are in a haste to setup tax identification systems to tax payers without looking at the other role of government which is SERVICE DELIVERY!

An ID should not just be for tax payments but for social benefits. An Id for a child for example can be used to gift and track subsidized school fees, track immunizations, etc. An ID for a mother can deliver public antenatal care, drugs, etc. For residents it can provide access to subsidized state transport.

An ID system should provide govt not just with a view on IGR but a fine grained view on how public services are delivered.

I want to see charts not on IGR but how much each state spends per resident on education, health, waste collection, on roads, water, etc.

IDENNAA:


We need a database that will capture all the existing business in Anambra state and their capital values so we can tax them accordingly. Many people make insane profits under the table and benefits from the state but they dont pay a kobo to the state, yet they are busy criticizing the government.

We need to know who and who lives in Anambra, how many children do they have ,what do they do and their incomes. Anambra state government is losing a lot of revenue because people take advantage of our porous revenue system. I thought this problem should be resolved by now but it seems it has overwhelmed Soludo. Everyday he is coming up with different task force but none has met the expectations.

Finally, Ndi Anambra don't want to pay taxes but in Lagos they have no problem paying huge taxes. Our people do not respect their homeland

Armon:

You see why we remain where we are …how does this solve poor road amenities? So if Obiano didn’t construct roads he shouldn’t?

Just to build wide dualized roads with covered gutter, light poles, traffic lights and road markings and trees… is a rocket science and all those rubbish you said will do what? Nothing….we really have a problem… go to the north and see what his mates are doing.. you are here supporting mediocrity. And you think we are smart..

And our Government are there not performing and supporting them.

If Obiano was incompetent let the professor do it … because if he is doing it we will not be complaining.

What is worth doing should be done well..

chibabs:
I thought that I came across a post here when someone was saying Gov Soludo with the ANSG was planning building a Film Village? Has the plan been shelved as usual? Lagos State Government is about building same. How is it that everything Gov Soludo promises to do, he never follows up?
While Onitsha Market was deliberately left to decay with no plans in sight to transform it into a modern commercial city, Delta State Government was busy pimping Asaba to corner the commercial activities Onitsha was formerly known for. The usual turning a blind eye to everything.
You take a look at Awka Capital, there's nothing there in the resemblance of a capital city. Awka doesn't have to start and end with the Enugu-Onitsha Express and its Three (3) Obiano Bridges. We have ACTDA that is supposed to do exactly what FCDA does in Abuja but nothing is seen to be working other than the periodic allocation of lands to private estate developers for their own interests. Is anything wrong if Gov Soludo creates districts just like we have in Abuja where the ANSG can plan, design, and build the Dubai-Taiwan prototype? We don't even have to go to Dubai or Taiwan to get the requisite prototype as Abuja is always a case study if we want to get it right. If it is greenery we want, Abuja has it. If it is roads with walkways and bus stops, Abuja also has it. You visit some locations in Abuja and you find that all the electric cables are underground. Proper waste management and water supply, Abuja try for the porsh areas too. There are roads with setbacks as institutionalized in the Abuja Master Plan. You come to Anambra, every building has shanties attached to it as makeshift shops. You won't know which area is for Residential, Commercial, or Mixed. Every little space is a market. No setbacks, no greenery, no nothing! Abuja is called the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) but we still have Federal Capital City (FCC) within it where every other development stems from and spreads into the hinterlands. Can ANSG not replicate same? Can we not decide to go to a virgin land, if Awka indigenes are making it impossible, and deliberately build our own Awka Capital City inside the Awka Capital Territory? You see a picture of Awka, you see local villages just like the villages of everyone of us here. "Some of our villages sef dey planned pass the Awka sef". The worst part is that Gov Soludo even live(d) in Abuja and he has lived overseas as well. Can the ANSG not, as a matter of urgency, begin to develop the new Awka Capital City from the Government House axis by dualizing the roads to where he wants to be known as the new capital city? Are there no Town Planners in Anambra State? Is it a crime if we have neighborhoods planned like Maitama, Asokoro, etc? If Abuja is a "Tug of War" for us to model our capital after, can we not visit Akwa-Ibom and copy from them? ANSG talks of planting trees, I haven't seen one Elephant Grass planted anywhere. We speak of road construction here, Gov Otti is constructing roads with street lights and road markings. JB is currently working in our backyard yet we can't even summon the courage to either approach them to even give us an estimate for for construction of any important road or the channelization of drainages in the Onitsha metropolis. "Na only talk we wan dey talk?" Is there any road in Anambra with a designated Bus-Stop? No plan for public transport system while we have one of our own in the person of Innoson. Can ANSG not partner with Innoson to produce for us special CNG buses with ramps for people living with disability? What is the benefit of having our own Innoson if we can't brandish our own unique custom made buses? Thank God for the new roads with walkways that are not even friendly to people living with disabilities. But, Charlie still try small sha! To be frank, I don't think we are serious. Obiano finished his own and ran to the U.S where he can walk comfortably his dog on a well paved street with greenery and walkway without being afraid of getting knocked down by an accelerating muscle car. Try walking even a brown dog along any street in Awka, both you and the dog will be the same colour of the mud in the street.
I am beginning to conclude that Awka was deliberately left to be slum because all the governors didn't want to elevate it to the status of a befitting capital at the detriment of their own home towns and LGAs. "Make una tell Gov Soludo say time dey go o!" It took ANSG 15 months to construct an airport but it has nearly taken 2 years to even complete the Avio Bridges that had been paid for. "Na wa o!"

SpaceTour:
You are spewing absolutely rubbish. Anambra is on track as best and most developed state in igboland. Soludo is working in almost all the LGAs in Anambra, he is also expanding infrastructures in all our major cities.

Awka is the fastest and best developing city in igboland with worldclass infrastructures like flyovers, best and biggest ICC in Nigeria, worldclass Awka millennium city, etc. there’s no SE state capital that’s better than Awka. Owerri and Umuahia are more or less a glorified villages and doesn’t look like what a state capital should. Enugu has been developing since colonial era but it is still a big village.

Anambra has the best public and private infrastructures in igboland. Anambra international airport beats all the other airports in igboland. Anambra has the best and finest Human Resources, Anambra has the largest economy in igboland, Anambra is the Lagos of the eastern region. Anambra is where other SE states like imo and ebonyi migrate to for greener pastures.

Anambra stands out as the giant of the eastern Nigeria. You envious bitter frustrated people always camp here just to spew nonsense but none of your rubbish can fly here.

chibabs:
I have always read your posts anytime you drop one of your, normally, child-like posts. Do you have this penchant for stupidity? You must be an imbecilic slowpoke if you must know. Rather, there's no difference between your brain and the one of a goat.
As an introduction, I am from Igbariam which makes me an Anambrarian. I think it's high time we started introducing ourselves in this thread before we start yapping. Did you really take your time to go through the write up? Or you just want to, as always, put your stupidity on exhibition? You have this craze for always wanting to compare development in Anambra with that of other states in the SE. It must really be tickling your Adam's Apple whenever you talk about AMC and ICC. You 'd get an erection always when you fly that kite, don't you? I am sure you always get an orgasm each time those words leave your mouth.
Are you telling me that because Anambra is the most developed in the entire SE, we should start popping Champagne? Is anything wrong in asking ANSG to model our capital city after Abuja? Everyone that posts anything here has his/her reasons for doing so. It has become a habit for you to always wiggle out from one of your numerous burrows to say Anambra is the most developed in the entire SE. I and others of like minds would want Anambra to be at par with Abuja, Rwanda, or Morocco. If you have any health issues you are suffering from, go take your medication. Nitwit!

SpaceTour:
I have always read your nonsense anytime you come here with your stoopidity. You and your entire family members are goats, animals and imbeci1es. Nkita lacha gi Anya there because you are not the only one that knows how to insult.

As an introduction, firstly, you are not from Anambra but an envious bitter frustrated ediot from another state.

Miserable frustrated ediot, I did exactly the same comparison that you did with Awka and other cities, so why are you angry about it ?

Yes, I will keep mentioning AMC and ICC because no other SE state has such worldclass infrastructures. Awka millennium city is the best thing in igboland since creation of Nigeria but ediots like you want us to stop discussing it. AWKA ICC is the single best facility in igboland but you people want us to stop mentioning it simply because other Igbo states don’t have such.

Soludo is the only governor building roads with sidewalks in igboland but you want us not to point it out.

Owerri ICC has collapsed but no one is worried about it. Owerri substandard flyover has collapsed and remained unusable but no one is talking about it. Had it been that those useless projects were in Anambra this thread would have exploded with ediots like you.

You want Anambra to be like Kigali but you don’t want other SE states to be like that too. This is because you want to always find reasons to continue to spew your trash here even when Anambra is the best in igboland.

Awka is the fastest and best developing city in igboland and Anambra is generally the best and most developed state in igboland, Anambra has the best public and private infrastructures in igboland. Anambra has the largest economy in igboland. Anambra has the largest and finest Human Resources in igboland. Schools and hospitals Anambra equally has the best in Igbo land and three major economically viable prosperous cities where other igbos migrate to for greener pastures. These are the facts that will always stand out.

Anuofia, if you have any psychiatric health challenges, go to psychia because this thread is not for ndi ala. Mpa gi nitwit

chibabs:
I know that I must have struck a nerve. I also know that my words must have left you with a bloody nose. Ok, Sorry! But, oga, u neva tell me your home town o. Nkakwu!

SpaceTour:
Ntoor. I know I must have hit you so hard now you have bloody mouth that’s why you want to back off. Bloody cursed envious ediot that want to claim Anambra so he can spew lies and nonsense. Atulu awusa . Na only me fit una

chibabs:
Daddy, abeg, tell us your home town na? Paul, I know! Judas Iscariot, I can not decode!! Babane, who are wa?

SpaceTour:
Ntoor. I know I must have hit you so hard now you have bloody mouth that’s why you want to back off. Bloody cursed envious ediot that want to claim Anambra so he can spew lies and nonsense. Atulu awusa . Na only me fit una

Miserable frustrated envious ediot, all you do is comment with different monikers and constituting nuisance here instead of focusing on your useless backward state.

Your posts are stupid useless, worthless and nonsensical. Your inputs here amounts to nothing. You are clown and a vagabond.

chibabs:
I know that I must have struck a nerve. I also know that my words must have left you with a bloody nose. Ok, Sorry! But, oga, u neva tell me your home town o. There's the saying: "A fool will always find a greater fool to admire him". Is it that there are people who actually likes your child-like, incoherent, irrational, nauseating, senseless, and, most of all, useless posts or you alternate monikers like in a way only you can ever do to give likes to your posts? If truly your comrades do like your posts, then it only goes to show that while your own foolishness is still in the Ground State, their own is already in an Excited State. I have weighed you abinitio from the Jargons you regularly posit in this thread and I am being drawn, here and now, to conclude that you are worth nobody's time. You are a mumu man in Asari Dokubo's voice. Nkakwu!

SpaceTour:
Ntoor. I know I must have hit you so hard now you have bloody mouth that’s why you want to back off. Bloody cursed envious ediot that want to claim Anambra so he can spew lies and nonsense. Atulu awusa . Na only me fit una

Miserable frustrated envious ediot, all you do is comment with different monikers and constituting nuisance here instead of focusing on your useless backward state.

Your posts are stupid useless, worthless and nonsensical. Your inputs here amounts to nothing. You are clown and a vagabond.