Taxing Nigerians to death? According to WFP-FAO, “up to 6,000 children could die every day from preventable causes over the next six months as a result of pandemic-related disruptions to essential health and nutrition services.”
With exponential spikes, which have forced “an increase in restrictions” in the United States of America and “racial disparities worsening the toll of the lockdown for people of colour, especially, women” in the United Kingdom, experts are now appealing for global “focus” on the virus rather than “games people are playing.”
The renowned economist was once quoted as saying that “the Nigerian economy cannot collapse because Nigeria has no economy.” Ordinarily, with close to 40,000 infections and a steady rise in death toll, one would have expected appropriate relief interventions from the government to ameliorate the pains of the pandemic; and I am not referring to 1 or 2 cups of rice and a loaf of bread distributed to the people as palliatives.
Juxtapose the high cost of transportation with the sharp rise in prices of foodstuffs at a time like this and one is bound to have a better grasp of our predicament. For instance, had Nigerian government been addressing unemployment, its policies in that direction should have been able to yield results in few months or few years.
They have imbibed a culture that shies away from paying tax! But, again, this is where the problem lies! Of what essence is paying tax to a government that has no corresponding input in one’s life?
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