Laleye Dipo writes on the leading role played by the Niger East Senator, Alhaji Mohammed Sani Musa, to get the buy in of his colleagues and stakeholders nationwide for the passage of the four executive tax bills recently signed into law by President Bola Tinubu.
When the idea of the four Presidential Tax Bills was first muted and made public, it naturally received negative reactions from several stakeholders especially those in the northern part of the country, the OrganisedLabour, state governors as well as the chambers of commerce in the region and across the nation
Though the four bills, the Nigeria Tax Bill, the Nigeria Tax Administration Bill, the Nigeria Revenue Service (Establishment) Bill, and the Joint Revenue Board (Establishment) Bill were designed to improve revenue generation, plug wastages and other ways through which the old legislation were exploited to circumvent the collected revenues the oppositions were very stiff to the extent that at a stage the promoters almost abandoned the struggle but for the determination and support of some Nigerians including Mohammed Sani Musa, Senator representing Niger East Senatorial District of Niger state who incidentally is also the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance on whose laps the bills fell.