The Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, has said the National Assembly will conduct open debate on the President Bola Tinubu’s tax reform bills before it for Nigerians’ input.
Adaramodu, who said the majority of those criticising the bills in the media had not seen it and acting based on the belief that anything tax was to place a burden on people, said, “I don’t see anything retrogressive in the tax reform bills.”
The senator representing Ekiti South Senatorial District spoke to journalists at his Ilawe Ekiti hometown on Saturday evening after the Ilawe Unity Day celebration and launch of N500m support fund for the commencement of operation of the teaching hospital annex in the community.
Criticisms had trailed the tax reform bills forwarded to the National Assembly by the Presidency.
But Adaramodu said, “Have those…