Amosun challenges indigenes over payment of taxes to Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Ogun, State News Monday, June 27th, 2011

Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, on Monday, kicked against the on-going payment of taxes to Lagos State government by the Ogun indigenes working in Lagos state.

Amosun said this in a brief interview with airport journalists at the residential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, where he had gone to receive President Goodluck Jonathan who was on an official trip to Ota, Ogun State, for the inauguration of May and Baker Factory.

Speaking on the development, Governor Amosun declared: ”If you go round, you will see what we are doing, most of you live in Ogun State, and you pay your taxes in Lagos.

“Look at Mowe- Ibafo area of Ogun, people living there pay their taxes to the Lagos State government.”

While attributing this reason to the inability of the past administration of the state to meet up with the expectation of their electorate, Governor Amosun stated: “When government is not alive to its responsibility, that is what you see happening in such a situation”.

He, however, said his government was committed to provision of the basic needs of the people saying: “We are still in the learning process and in a short time, the state will soon witness rapid development.”

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