Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele has advised the Federal Government to tax Nigerians for every call above 3 minutes as part of plans to cushion the effect of the economic recession.
He said this while speaking at the Annual Bankers’ Dinner in Lagos on Friday.
He said the government could raise additional revenue by introducing the charge.
He said, “There are several ways we can raise additional revenue to finance the increased expenditure that is needed to engender fast and sustainable growth in the economy,”
Emefiele said, “I think we can consider introducing a negligible telecom surcharge to be entirely borne by the initiator of a call. In order to protect the poor and vulnerable amongst us, we could structure it to only take effect after the third minute of talk.
“Some analyses have indicated that the government could earn about N100 billion per annum from this alone. Obviously this surcharge will mainly be borne by middle and upper class people since I do not know many poor people who make calls for more than 3 minutes!”
why is this man still in office? He sounds like he read how to be an economist in 10 days. SMH
what a wanker if he really said so
this dude is the “Tyga” of the Nigerian Govt.
Useless af but keep getting record deals
this is an arrant nonsense, how could you think of call rate when we HV other problems to tackle, he’s showing us his incompetency
Our Nigerian CBN Governor ladies and gentlemen.
After waiting 6 months. This is the dregs we get.
What a country!!!
this man is consistently inconsistent
and do what with the money? The billions you claim to have recovered what have you done with it??? Clueless
tell that dude to leave us alone….
Cc @ngrwailers @officialpdp @apcnigeria @elnathan_john @john_danfulani @zinadabo @tutsy22 Things are gradually getting outta hand
I never knew someone could be this consistently lack ideas on how to generate funds for FG.
oga do the job we are paying you for
Evil man. Do you want to kill Nigerians with your anti-people policies?