The Governor of Cross River Stop the Poor and Low Income Earners from Paying taxes, What Full Video
The Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, cry on Thursday as he stop the Poor and low-income earners from Paying tax in the state.
“This is not Ben Ayade, this is not my nature,” the Governor said. “I am not wired for this insensitivity to a weaker person. I never knew that five years into office as Governor, I will still find someone living in a thatched house in Cross River.”
The Governor went on to inaugurate an anti-tax agency designed to abolish payment of taxes by low-income earners.
The move is part of the state’s COVID-19 palliative measures.
Ayade added that the tax exemption is aimed at encouraging small and medium scale businesses, peasant farmers, commercial transport operators, food vendors, hotels with less than 50 rooms, and all those struggling to earn a living in order to expand and create a livelihood for their families.
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