Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called on
the Northern governors and senators to focus their attention on economically liberating and empowering their peoples.
The call came as members of the National Assembly are currently divided along regional lines over the Tax Reform Bills recently introduced by President Bola Tinubu.
The rights group further
appealed to Nigerian senators and House of Representatives members to engage in merit-based debates around the new tax reform bills so as to ascertain the long-term impacts, merits or demerits, rather the igniting ethnic and regional tensions over the matter.
“Those who oppose the bills should list out their reasons backed up by scientific body of evidence and with statistics and not on ethnic or regional sentiments,” the group said in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko.
HURIWA said the conversations around the proposed tax reform bills should not be…