{"id":84821,"date":"2021-09-21T07:10:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T06:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=84821"},"modified":"2021-09-21T07:10:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T06:10:26","slug":"fg-should-encourage-states-to-harness-resources-revenues-for-development-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/21\/fg-should-encourage-states-to-harness-resources-revenues-for-development-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"FG should encourage states to harness resources, revenues for development &#8211; Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike has asked the federal government to encourage states to harness their resources and generate revenues including value-added tax (VAT) collection for development purposes.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement signed and released on Monday by Kelvin Ebiri, special assistant on media to Governor Wike<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The statement follows the current legal tussle over VAT<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0collection between states and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to him, states have the legal right to collect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/20\/akeredolu-speaks-on-vat-collection-says-firs-move-to-amend-constitution-dead-on-arrival\/\">VAT<\/a>, but it is not considered on the merit of the law by some public commentators, including state executives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He said these public commentators are politicising the issue and looking at it from ethnicity and religion, adding that FIRS collecting VAT was illegal and could be likened to robbing the states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cYou don\u2019t even need to be a lawyer to know that VAT is not in item 58 and 59 of the second schedule of the 1999 Constitution as amended. Everybody knows that. It is not even in the concurrent list,\u201d Wike said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cTherefore, it falls under the residual list. It is not arguable. That yesterday nothing happened does not mean that today nothing will happen, or tomorrow something will not happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cNigeria should encourage states to be strong enough to have resources to develop their states. We are in a federal system where we are practising the unitary system. Everybody at the end of the month will run to Abuja to share money. Nobody comes back to the state to think, how do I develop my state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe issue of VAT did not start from Rivers State alone. It started in Lagos State when Lagos State challenged it in the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court said you (Lagos) shouldn\u2019t have sued the Federal Government. All you would have done was to sue the agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cSome people say, be your brother\u2019s keeper. I have no problem being my brother\u2019s keeper but why not come out and say, let us tell ourselves the simple truth. As it is being provided in the law, who is the person responsible to collect the VAT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWhen you agree that it is the state, then we can sit down to look at the different problems of states. And not to say be your brother\u2019s keeper while you\u2019re doing an illegal thing, in disobeying what the law says you should not do.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike has asked the federal government to encourage states to harness their resources and generate revenues including value-added tax (VAT) collection for development purposes. 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