By Stanley Onyekwere
The FCT Administration has appealed to the residents of Abuja, the nation’s capital city to always endeavour to pay their tax, especially Ground Rents and other land related charges.
The Administration said, payment of tax is a constitutional obligation bestowed on the citizenry, which would assist government in providing critical infrastructure and social services.
This was contained in a recent statement from Director, Information and Communication, FCT Administration, Muhammad Hazat Sule.
In the statement, Sule explained that the Administration needs fund to provide critical infrastructure and other essential services for the well-being of the residents of the Federal Capital Territory.
He lamented that most of the residents of the Territory found it difficult in paying the prescribed taxes, even though they know that non-payment of tax is a breach of the law.
Also, the Director emphasized that non-payment of tax can deny a citizen of his fundamental rights and therefore, appealed to the residents to pay their taxes in order not to run fowl of the law.
According to him, the present leadership of the FCT Administration under the FCT Minister, Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello, is breaking new grounds in the provision of necessary infrastructure; revealing that six regional roads as well as important roads in the Satellite Towns of the FCT are being rapidly developed by the Administration.
He noted that for paucity of funds is hindering the government from speedily completing some of signature projects embarked upon by the FCT Administration.
He however, disclosed that the present Administration inherited a lot of abandoned projects, but it is working assiduously in completing them in line with the President Muhammadu Buahari’s vision for the grown and development of the nation’s capital city.
The Director explained that the Administration has embarked on the construction of ‘Greater Abuja Water Project’ that is designed to supply portable water to about 50 Estates and Mass Housing schemes.
He reiterated that the project when completed will provide portable water to about 1.5 million homes across the Phases III & IV of the Federal Capital City and environs.
