Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has called on the
Federal Government to rescind its decision to reduce workers salary
through obnoxious increment in Pay As You Earn, pension and National
Housing Fund deductions.
According to him, the deductions, which he said were
applied on gross salary has made some of the workers to have as much 30
percent reduction in salary.
The governor said it was wicked and inhuman for any
government to increase taxes on workers salary at this period of
economic recession when “workers take home can no longer take them
home.”
“The Federal Government should stop believing that the
only way it can take Nigeria out of recession is to impose obnoxious
taxes that will further impoverish the people,” he warned.
Fayose in a press release issued on Sunday
by the his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media,
Lere Olayinka, advised against increasing taxes that will cause
decrement in what workers earn when “government does not have capacity
to increase workers salary at this trying period.”
The governor said it appeared that the President Muhammadu
Buhari led All Progressives Congress’ Federal Government’s desire was
to kill Nigerians with obnoxious taxes.
He said, “As military Head of State, Buhari used gun to
deal with Nigerians, now as a civilian president, he is using economic
recession to punish Nigerians and adding salt to injury by using inhuman
taxes to reduce workers salary.
“Buhari’s government increased petrol price from N87 to
N145 per litre, kerosene; diesel and gas price was increased,
electricity tariff was increased, N50 stamp duty was imposed on bank
customers, N65 levy was imposed on every withdrawal on ATM, various bank
charges introduced, custom duties increased and now workers’ PAYE tax
has been increased.
“I sympathise with the Federal Government workers who only
got to know about reduction of their salaries when they got credit
alert last month, but they should remember that I warned them.
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