Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of
Lagos state, has urged more residents to pay their taxes to enable the state
government to carry out its developmental projects.
Sanwo-Olu gave the advice on
Tuesday while answering questions on ‘The Platform Nigeria’, an event organised
by The Covenant Christian Church Place, Iganmu, Lagos.
According to the governor, less
than 700,000 out of 4.5 million taxable adults in Lagos are currently paying
tax.
“We are not saying that we should
increase tax, but we encourage people to be on the tax net,” he said.
“We are also appealing to our tax
agency to be more proactive and reach out to people who are not paying tax.”
Sanwo-Olu appealed to Lagosians
to be patient over the bad state of roads in the state, saying that continuous
rainfall was slowing down rehabilitation and palliative work on the roads.
He assured that there would be
extensive and massive rehabilitation of roads after the rainy season.
The governor said that state
government was working on a multi-modal transportation system comprising rail,
water transportation and bus transit system to remedy the traffic problem in
the state.
”On water transportation, we are
encouraging the building of a lot of jetties and we have just acquired six to
seven new passenger boats that can take 60 to 70 passengers at a time,” he
said.
On commercial motor-cycle
operators, the governor said since his administration wanted to give everybody
a chance to be part of the state development plan, he was trying to harmonise
and come up with a regulation system.
”This is designed to know who
they are, their activities and how to manage them to ensure that they don’t add
to the problem of traffic flow in the state; we don’t want to disenfranchise
anybody,” Sanwo-Olu said.
He said that through the ongoing
Metropolitan Fibre Initiative of his administration, public institutions in the
state, such as schools and hospitals, would have access to high-speed internet
service.
Sanwo-Olu said that the
initiative, which was technology enabler, would help to manage traffic and
other security issues in the state.
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