How Tinubu’s Tax Reforms Will Affect Northern Nigeria Badly; Gov Mohammed
Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed has stated that if President Bola Tinubu’s proposed tax reforms are approved by the National Assembly, northern states will lose their financial ability to pay civil servant salaries and address infrastructure gaps.
There are 19 states in Nigeria’s northern region across the northwest, northeast and north central geopolitical zones.
The governor said this when he received the Christian community in Bauchi State who visited him at the Government House on Wednesday for the annual Christmas homage.
He branded the tax reforms as anti-northern, and condemned President Tinubu for advocating measures that will allegedly benefit one area of the country over another.
“It is not about pride or ego, we must be able to do things that people will be assisted with because whatever it is, the situation was not like this before. If the situation was bad before I came, tell me! And I must change and that is why the presidency must listen to the cries about tax reform,” he said.
“It is not a good policy for northern Nigeria because we are not going to get money to pay you salaries, to do roads. They must listen, otherwise, they are calling for anarchy. And that is not good.”
