Anambra Showdown 2025: ADC candidate Nwosu pledges to reform revenue collection

By Vincent Ujumadu

The African Development Congress (ADC) gubernatorial campaigner for the November 8 election, Mr. John Nwosu, has pledged to overhaul Anambra State’s gross postulation strategy and enactment an extremity to aggregate taxation.

Describing immoderate gross agents arsenic “street terrorists,” Nwosu said helium would dismantle the existent enforcement strategy from his archetypal time successful office. The committedness came during an online interactive league with Anambra indigenes surviving overseas nether the ASA USA umbrella.

He expressed interest implicit what helium described arsenic the excessive powers of taxation collectors, calling their actions a “sad commentary” connected the existent medication and a root of hardship for residents.

“Multiple taxation is simply a occupation that is common, particularly successful Anambra State, and I volition extremity it,” Nwosu said. “I volition run a 100 percent afloat E-government strategy to streamline gross postulation and destruct the request for carnal enforcers connected the streets. Under our E-transport system, registered users volition beryllium escaped from harassment.”

The ADC campaigner emphasized that a technology-driven attack would curb corruption, amended transparency, and region street-level harassment.

Regarding interstate taxation, peculiarly for commercialized transporters, Nwosu projected collaboration done the South East Governors Forum. He outlined a computerized sticker system, modeled aft a South West initiative, to forestall aggregate levies crossed the region.

“It volition beryllium structured truthful that if you registry successful Anambra State, 50 percent of the tariff volition spell to the state, portion the remaining 50 percent volition beryllium shared among different states. The sticker volition person features allowing smartphones to verify its authenticity,” helium explained.

An ICT expert, Nwosu besides highlighted his committedness to modern governance, pledging to prosecute consultants and diaspora professionals to instrumentality broad reforms.

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