Britain decided to amalgamate Nigeria because The North ran on a deficit while the south on a surplus. The amalgamation was designed to use the surplus from the south to offset the deficit of the North.
Fast forward to the 1999 constitution, it was designed to use the surplus of the south to offset the deficit in the North.
The tax reform bill is a revolutionary. It was designed to take the feeding bottle from the feudal elites who deliberately keep their people ignorant and impoverished while they depend on the wealth of the south to sustain the bad habits over many decades.
Tax reform bill makes a very powerful statement: If you want wealth for your states…. take your almanjiri youths off the streets, put them in schools and skilled training centers and build factories for them to work instead of almsbegging, violence, killings, maiming, arson, banditry, terrorism. Increase your revenue through labor and hardwork, not through constitutional theft of the wealth of your neighbors.
