Kano’s Hisbah seized and destroyed 5,760 cartons of beer, yet Kano gets the lion’s share from VAT on beer – Reno Omokri

Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has reacted to report of Kano state’s Hisbah seizing and destroying 5,760 cartons of beer.

Omokri who claimed that Kano will get the lion’s share from Worth Added Tax from beer, added that it’s hypocritical for the state authorities to maintain getting allocations from objects destroyed of their state however allowed in different states.

He additional acknowledged that “Nigeria’s present federalism is built on a basis of injustice and that unjust basis have to be destroyed and changed with an equitable one”.

 

Insisting that Nigeria’s present federalism is a “parasitic relationship”, Omokri urged Nigerians to “insist on the rights of states to gather VAT because the court docket and regulation supplies.”

 

He stated;

 

Yesterday, Kano’s Hisbah seized and destroyed 5,760 Cartons of Beer. But, Kano will get the lion’s share from VAT on beer. That is hypocrisy! I’m solidly with Wike on this. Nigeria’s present federalism is constructed on a basis of injustice and that unjust basis have to be destroyed and changed with an equitable one.

And these are the exact same individuals agitating towards the Anti-Open Grazing Regulation that the Southern states need to go. You reject alcohol, however need to impose killer herdsmen on us?

Greater than 60% of the VAT from Lagos is taken from Lagos and given to states like Kano and others. Nigeria’s present federalism is a parasitic relationship. We should all insist on the rights of states to gather VAT because the court docket and regulation supplies. The monkey can now not work for the baboon to eat.