Heavy taxation driving people out of Lagos –Sambo Vice President Namadi Sambo says many residents of Lagos State have been fleeing the state because of the high taxation being imposed on the people by the state government. Sambo said this at a reconciliation meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirants in Lagos on Wednesday. He said the state government was misleading the people of the state by laying claims to some Federal Government projects, such as the deep blue sea port. The VP said he was surprised that with the large revenue the state was generating, it was unfortunate that the All Progressives Congress-led government had failed to deliver the dividends of democracy to the people. He, therefore, stated that if the pdp candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, was elected governor next year, he (Agbaje) would bring an end to the suffering of the people. The meeting came after the immediate Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, took the party to court to compel it to cancel the primary in which the number of votes exceeded the number of voters. He said, “Lagos has for years been yearning for change from the burden of excessive taxation and squandering, you all know about. Today, people are leaving Lagos. The huge resources accruing to the state are used to the detriment of the good people of Lagos State. We are poised more than ever before to rescue Lagosians from the bondage and sufferings of taking back with the left hand and then, taking it away by the right hand. “I will like to mention part of the tricks of the opposition where some governors put their pictures on projects in newspapers. In one of them, I saw the Lekki Deep Sea port. This is a PPP (Private-Public Partnership) programme where the Federal Government has large shareholdings with the Nigeria Ports Authority. “The site of that Lekki Deep Sea port was the site where the Federal Government was to build a methanol plant. That methanol plant could not continue because we had spent over $200m on which has been converted to our share. “Apart from that, the NPA is a 20 per cent shareholder in that port and then the private sector has the largest share. Some states are claiming that it is their projects. Our own pictures are there and we are confident that anything that we print and show you can be verified. I believe that with the coming of our new governor, we will have realistic development in Lagos State.”
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 22:50:15 +0000
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