PDP CONDEMNS, SYMPATHISES WITH RESIDENTS OF LAGOS OVER OBNOXIOUS TAX REGIME
By Trek Africa Newspaper
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP has condemned and sympathises with the people of Lagos state over the alleged recent fee issued on residents for parking on the setback on private Properties.
In a press statement e-signed and released to Trek Africa Newspaper by the Party’s State Publicity Secretary, Hon. Hakeem Amode stated that, “Lagos State government through one of its agency Lagos State Parking Authority (LASPA) recently issued a demand notice (which surfaces on social media platforms) asking residents to pay and unjustifiable exorbitant fee for parking on the setback on their private properties.”
According to the statement, “Our party PDP condemn this decision in its entirety and sympathises with the people of
Lagos state over another revenue drive by the APC government in Lagos which is only
aimed at filling the gold pot of the emperor of Lagos and only aimed at milking the people of state in order to finance the individual ambition of one man who had hold the state and its people by the jugular.”
The current economic situation occasioned by the ineptitude and ineffectiveness of the ruling party APC had continuously push people into poverty and had rendered a lot of business moribund thereby increasing the number of unemployment in our dear Lagos state.
Recently, the state increased the public transport fares and waste collection rates without recourse to the fact that the state economic crunch had prevented employers from increasing the salaries of workers. A government that is sensitive to the people’s welfare should know that the current economic situation required government to shore up compliance in the area of revenue generation, encourage voluntary tax payment rather than levying surviving
businesses and individual through the exorbitant parking fee which its calculation had no justification.
We would like to also state that the APC government should run a government with human face because the government is primarily for citizens’ welfare and capacity development which eventually helped the society to have citizens who are committed to the development of their community and the state at large. The habit and attitude of the state government to turn every department and agency of the state to revenue generating centre shows that APC
government does not care about the welfare of the people in the state but bent on making money from them at their individual detriment.
In view of the foregoing, we asked Lagosian to free the state and the people of the state from the hands of the entitled emperor and his cohorts who are bent on impoverishing the citizen to achieve their selfish ambitions.
Our Party, PDP remains the strongest party with the equally spread representations in the state and we are asking the citizen of state to belief our party PDP and our Candidates His Excellency Dr. Olajide Adediran and his Deputy Her Excellency Funke Akindele when choosing the government of the state at the next polls because our policies and program will
have human face and the people of the state wouldn’t have to wake up to the intimidation and harassment currently being practice by the current APC government in Lagos State.
