Former Governor of Sokoto State and Senator representing Sokoto South, Aminu Tambuwal, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s proposed tax reform invoice, describing its timing as inappropriate given the financial challenges being confronted by Nigerians.
Tambuwal expressed his views on Sunday whereas distributing reduction supplies to flood victims and handing out starter packs to over 1,000 beneficiaries of a abilities acquisition programme in his senatorial district.
Talking on the occasion, he stated, “Let me use the chance of this platform to deal with the difficulty that’s raging for now, the difficulty of tax reform as offered by President Bola Tinubu.
“I consider it is a fallacious time for any upward overview of both VAT or any type of tax, the time is inauspicious, the time could be very fallacious.
“These are exhausting occasions for the individuals of Nigeria and what they’re going by. What we require of the federal government is for it to concentrate on initiatives and programmes that may carry succour and reduction to the individuals and to not improve their hardship.
“Already, we face hardship as occasioned by the devaluation of the naira and elimination of gas subsidy that was carried out by this regime; I consider we must always concentrate on managing the hardship and see how we are able to carry our individuals out of hardship.
“The current statistics of Nigerian Bureau of Statistics exhibits that over 30 million Nigerians are already in abject poverty ”
Whereas in Shagari, the senator, in collaboration with the Nationwide Emergency Administration Company, distributed reduction supplies to over a thousand households victims of flooding and different pure disasters
Moreover, in Bodinga, the senator partnered with the Nationwide Directorate of Employment to supply abilities coaching to over 1,000 youths in numerous fields.
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