GROUND RENT: WIKE MUST TREAD CAREFUL
January 26, 2024 | News
-By Zik Gbemre
GROUND RENT: WIKE MUST TREAD CAREFUL
Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Chief Nyesom Wike should tread with care in his boasting of collecting ground rents from Abuja property owners.
The burden of his action will fall on the common man who is a tenant. Of course, property owners will hike their rents. Even the ground rent is obsolete like I have said before. All these multiple taxes, levies, and ground rents will hit harder on the poor man.
Nigerians are still battling with fuel increase and now increase of rents. Since Wike is boasting of collecting ground rents from property owners rents are drastically on the increase. Most landlords in Abuja are now issuing annual termination of tenancy agreement with intention of increasing rents since they have to use what they have to raise ground rents.
Abuja rents are so high that most civil service workers now relocate to Nasarawa state where they come from every morning for work. A lot of people are becoming homeless. Wike has been in government since 1999 and he doesn't know the hardships the people are facing.
Every time we see him cooking and making merry with his political friends always trooping to his house to jamboree, wine, and eat good meals.
Lagos state is another state where the government chokes the people with multiple high taxes. All they know is generating internal revenues whereas the people are suffering. In Abuja and Lagos, there are a lot of homeless people.
Few weeks ago we saw a trending video of a woman living in a makeshift zinc home with her children on the Lagos Lagoon. This is just one person out of millions living like that. All these multiple rents are pushing rents very high above what the common man can afford.
To Wike, he is fighting a just cause but in actual fact he is fighting the poor people. Wike should not think his focus is on property owners but in actual fact, he is causing pains to the poor people who will bear the pains of his aggressiveness on his revenue drive to generate money that will end up in the pockets of politicians.
What is the difference between tenement rates and ground rents? 'Nothing we no go see for Nigeria'. How much have all these revenues generation improved on the life of the common man in Nigeria?
In the US and UK, the people see the positive impacts of taxation. There is no street in London that is not connected to public buses, trains, and tubes. The buses are on the roads for 24 hours. I am pained when politicians compare Nigeria to the UK and the US when they are increasing pains on the people with frivolous excuses of Nigeria having the cheapest fuel in the world.
The tax money in the UK and the US is used for the benefits of every citizen. One doesn't need to be connected to King Charles and the Prime Minister of UK before they construct public roads. What is the value of the multiple taxation to the common man?
Taxes have no value added to the life of the common man. Those civil service workers who work in Victoria Island, Ikoyi, and the entire Lagos Island can't afford house rents. Some have to live in Ogun state. Some get home at 1am in the morning hours and start going back to work at 3am or 4am in the same morning.
How many civil service workers can afford Abuja rent? The council house for low income earners is not available to the poor man as it is in the UK. The UK medical care is superb for both the poor and the rich people and here we compare ourselves to them when the government wants to justify the wickedness of the ruling class.
Those who have visited London know that London is connected with roads, rails, and underground tubes and here the government will say our fuels are cheap.
Wike's undue rascality must stop and should not further inflict injuries on the poor people. His arrogance must stop and tread softly. Abuja is a civil service city. Any drastic action against property owners will inflict more injuries on the poor people in Abuja.
Wike should allow the poor to breath. His crusade of enforcement of ground rents is affecting the poor people. The ground or land rents should be scrapped with immediate effect. This write up is for Wike to allow the poor to breathe. Wike thinks he is fighting the property owners but in actual fact he is strangulating the poor people.
According to Wike, he is doing all of this to raise Internal generated revenue, IGR with which to fund FCT projects. There are tenement rates, property tax, and ground rents for people in Abuja City who can't afford rents within the city.
Generating revenues at all cost to fund projects without considering the poor living condition of the people? When landlords pay tenement rates, pay property taxes, and pay ground rents then the burden will fall on the common tenants.
Wike talks like a typical politician without considering the people. How much are the salaries of civil service workers that they can bear the burden of tenement rates, property tax, and ground rents? Wike always boast of being a tough politician who will not change his stance on matters no matter what.
Bringing hardships to the common people is not the strength of any politician in power. How many civil service workers can afford the high rents in Abuja? This is not a sign of power but a sign of weakness on his part if he doesn't know it.
Zik Gbemre
January 26, 2024
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes
-By Zik Gbemre
GROUND RENT: WIKE MUST TREAD CAREFUL
Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Chief Nyesom Wike should tread with care in his boasting of collecting ground rents from Abuja property owners.
The burden of his action will fall on the common man who is a tenant. Of course, property owners will hike their rents. Even the ground rent is obsolete like I have said before. All these multiple taxes, levies, and ground rents will hit harder on the poor man.
Nigerians are still battling with fuel increase and now increase of rents. Since Wike is boasting of collecting ground rents from property owners rents are drastically on the increase. Most landlords in Abuja are now issuing annual termination of tenancy agreement with intention of increasing rents since they have to use what they have to raise ground rents.
Abuja rents are so high that most civil service workers now relocate to Nasarawa state where they come from every morning for work. A lot of people are becoming homeless. Wike has been in government since 1999 and he doesn't know the hardships the people are facing.
Every time we see him cooking and making merry with his political friends always trooping to his house to jamboree, wine, and eat good meals.
Lagos state is another state where the government chokes the people with multiple high taxes. All they know is generating internal revenues whereas the people are suffering. In Abuja and Lagos, there are a lot of homeless people.
Few weeks ago we saw a trending video of a woman living in a makeshift zinc home with her children on the Lagos Lagoon. This is just one person out of millions living like that. All these multiple rents are pushing rents very high above what the common man can afford.
To Wike, he is fighting a just cause but in actual fact he is fighting the poor people. Wike should not think his focus is on property owners but in actual fact, he is causing pains to the poor people who will bear the pains of his aggressiveness on his revenue drive to generate money that will end up in the pockets of politicians.
What is the difference between tenement rates and ground rents? 'Nothing we no go see for Nigeria'. How much have all these revenues generation improved on the life of the common man in Nigeria?
In the US and UK, the people see the positive impacts of taxation. There is no street in London that is not connected to public buses, trains, and tubes. The buses are on the roads for 24 hours. I am pained when politicians compare Nigeria to the UK and the US when they are increasing pains on the people with frivolous excuses of Nigeria having the cheapest fuel in the world.
The tax money in the UK and the US is used for the benefits of every citizen. One doesn't need to be connected to King Charles and the Prime Minister of UK before they construct public roads. What is the value of the multiple taxation to the common man?
Taxes have no value added to the life of the common man. Those civil service workers who work in Victoria Island, Ikoyi, and the entire Lagos Island can't afford house rents. Some have to live in Ogun state. Some get home at 1am in the morning hours and start going back to work at 3am or 4am in the same morning.
How many civil service workers can afford Abuja rent? The council house for low income earners is not available to the poor man as it is in the UK. The UK medical care is superb for both the poor and the rich people and here we compare ourselves to them when the government wants to justify the wickedness of the ruling class.
Those who have visited London know that London is connected with roads, rails, and underground tubes and here the government will say our fuels are cheap.
Wike's undue rascality must stop and should not further inflict injuries on the poor people. His arrogance must stop and tread softly. Abuja is a civil service city. Any drastic action against property owners will inflict more injuries on the poor people in Abuja.
Wike should allow the poor to breath. His crusade of enforcement of ground rents is affecting the poor people. The ground or land rents should be scrapped with immediate effect. This write up is for Wike to allow the poor to breathe. Wike thinks he is fighting the property owners but in actual fact he is strangulating the poor people.
According to Wike, he is doing all of this to raise Internal generated revenue, IGR with which to fund FCT projects. There are tenement rates, property tax, and ground rents for people in Abuja City who can't afford rents within the city.
Generating revenues at all cost to fund projects without considering the poor living condition of the people? When landlords pay tenement rates, pay property taxes, and pay ground rents then the burden will fall on the common tenants.
Wike talks like a typical politician without considering the people. How much are the salaries of civil service workers that they can bear the burden of tenement rates, property tax, and ground rents? Wike always boast of being a tough politician who will not change his stance on matters no matter what.
Bringing hardships to the common people is not the strength of any politician in power. How many civil service workers can afford the high rents in Abuja? This is not a sign of power but a sign of weakness on his part if he doesn't know it.
Zik Gbemre
January 26, 2024
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes