“NO ELECTRICITY, NO VOTE,” SOUTH AFRICANS THREATEN TO SHUN RULING PARTY ANC. (PHOTO)

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 “No electricity, no vote,” South Africans threaten to shun ruling party ANC Residents in Katlehong, a township outside Johannesburg, have resolved to boycott South Africa's upcoming local elections on November 4 due to long-standing failures by authorities to provide basic services like electricity. For over 20 years, around 180 households in the community have relied on illegal electrical connections pulled from neighboring areas to power their homes. Angry over the lack of formal grid infrastructure, residents are directing their frustration at the ruling African National Congress (ANC). "We have made a collective decision: no electricity, no vote," said community leader Lesiba Rankapole, 59. "We know it is illegal, but we had no choice because we cannot live without electricity. Our children cannot progress without electricity." "I was born ANC, but today I do not want anyone to tell me about the ANC because I am suffering," added 57-year-old resid...

NORTHERN ELDERS FORUM KICKS AGAINST NEW TAX BILL. (PHOTO).


 Northern Elders Forum kicks against New Tax Bill


The Federal Government has been advised as a matter of urgency to suspend the rush to implement the proposed Tax Reform Bills, so as to more wisely use the medium of dialogue to allay all concerns, collect all quality contributions and critical inputs from cross sections of Nigerian stakeholders.


The Leadership of the Northern Elders' Forum, in a Communique issued at the end of its meeting and signed by Chairman of its Management Board, A.M Al-Amin Daggash, also suggested that, pending the emergence into the national horizon, of clear evidence of the promised economic recovery by the government.


The forum admitted that Since coming into office, the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has brazenly operated with a total contempt and sardonic disdain for any patriotic voice of dissent and a palpable proclivity for emasculating its imaginary opponents.


While faulting the tax Bill, the forum stated that the proposed formula contained in the NTAB is not fair to the states where VAT revenue is generated, as the consuming states are denied credit for what has been generated from them.


It added that the plan to move the exceedingly performing developmental and technological institutions, with a secured means of sustainability, such as, TETFund, NITDA and NASENI, to the uncertain and hazardous future of budgetary allocation should be halted.


The forum stressed that religious, charitable organizations and family inheritance wealth, should be exempted from paying all forms of taxes, as this is prone to conflicts over citizens' strict adherence to some religious obligatory laws.

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