The Osun State Governor, Rauf
Aregbesola, on Tuesday said never would his administration base the
execution of its programme on allocations from federal revenues again.
The governor, at the signing of the Osun
State Land Use Charge Law in Osogbo, stated that previous and present
administrations in the state had so much relied on federal allocations
and that when the oil glut came, his government could no longer pay
salaries and carried out other critical expenditure.
Aregbesola said the state had learnt a
lot of lessons from the situation where it had to go cap in hand to the
Federal Government for allocations that could no longer take care of the
primary needs of the state.
He described suggestions that the state
could not be self-sufficient in the light of its human and material
endowments as an insult, saying looking inward for progress had now
become a must.
The main objective of the new law,
according to him, is to generate additional revenue and provide for a
single property charge, which replaces all other state and local
government taxes on real property, including taxes like tenement rates,
ground rents and neighbourhood improvement charges.
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