November 15th, 2020

Gov Bello condemns bread levy

The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has described the imposition of tax on loaves of bread sold in the state as devilish.
The governor's deputy, Edward Onoja, in a statement on Saturday, said he never approved such wickedness.
The governor stated this as soon as people started to continue to condemn the tax on bread loaves by the government which was announced in a memo signed by the permanent secretary kogi state Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Usman Ibrahim, on November 9.

Following the initial uproar after the move was announced, the state Commissioner of Information, Kingsley Fanwo, issued a statement to defend the levy.

​He had said that the tax was established to protect indigenous bakers from people that bring bread into the state without paying any form of levy.

On what the government will do concerning the development, onoja said those behind the “rumours” would be fished out and punished.
“We will not tolerate our own officials trying to profit off our people in any way, or even acting ill-advisedly in manners that cause them any form of distress,” Onoja added.