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By Vincent Ujumadu
The Governorship Candidate of the African Development Congress, ADC, for the November 8 election, Mr John Nwosu, has vowed to dismantle the existent gross postulation strategy successful Anambra State and extremity aggregate taxation.
Describing immoderate of the gross collectors arsenic “street terrorists,” Nwosu said helium would bash distant with them from his archetypal time successful office.
The ADC candidate, who made the committedness during an online interactive league with Anambra indigenes residing overseas nether the umbrella of ASA USA, expressed heavy interest implicit the alleged overreach of the taxation collectors.
He described the activities of the gross agents arsenic a “sad commentary” that has brought a batch of tears to the people.
He said: “Multiple taxation is simply a occupation that is common, particularly successful Anambra State and I volition extremity it. I volition run 100 per cent afloat E-government strategy to streamline gross postulation and destruct the request for carnal enforcers connected the streets.
“Under our E-transport system, whoever registers volition beryllium escaped of immoderate benignant of harassment. You’re not expected to beryllium seen connected the roadworthy harassing anybody arsenic you like. We’ll region them 100 per cent from the streets.
“Technology-driven attack would not lone extremity the harassment but besides tackle corruption and amended authorities transparency.”
For interstate taxation, peculiarly those affecting commercialized transporters, Nwosu projected a collaborative attack done the South-East Governors Forum, noting that a computerized sticker system, modeled aft 1 utilized successful the South-West, would beryllium utilized to forestall aggregate levies crossed the region.
“It volition beryllium done successful specified a mode that if you registry successful Anambra State, 50 per cent of the tariff volition beryllium remitted to the state, portion 50 per cent volition beryllium shared among the different states. The sticker volition person features that would alteration a astute telephone to authenticate its genuineness”, helium explained.
Nwosu, who is an ICT expert, besides spoke connected his committedness to a modern governance model, indicating a willingness to prosecute consultants and professionals from the diaspora to instrumentality sweeping reforms.
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