Land Use Charge: CBA tackles NBA over 7-days’ ultimatum to Ambode

The Centre for Public Accountability (CPA) has tackled the
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja branch over a seven-day
ultimatum issued to the Lagos state Governor, Akinwumi Ambode,
asking him to reverse the reviewed Land Use Charge or face court
action.

The group, in a statement entitled “Lagos State Land Use Charge:
Does The Rich Cry Wolf ?” condemned the plan by Ikeja NBA to cause
public riot in the state if the law was not reversed.

In the statement, the group’s Executive Director, Comrade
Olufemi Lawson said “need we remind the NBA Ikeja branch that other
wellmeaning Lagos civil society organisations like ours are at
liberty to rally round our members to equally protest the attempt
of the Bar to instigate chaos in our state.”

The group insisted that there was nothing wrong with the
reviewed law, saying that the Land Use Charge Law 2018, only
repealed an earlier one of 2001.

Besides, CPA explained the new law also consolidated ground
rent, tenement rate and neighbourhood improvement levy “therefore,
Lagosians would not be victims of multiple taxations.”

The Centre for Public Accountability (CPA) has tackled the
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja branch over a seven-day
ultimatum issued to the Lagos state Governor, Akinwumi Ambode,
asking him to reverse the reviewed Land Use Charge or face court
action.

The group, in a statement entitled “Lagos State Land Use Charge:
Does The Rich Cry Wolf ?” condemned the plan by Ikeja NBA to cause
public riot in the state if the law was not reversed.

In the statement, the group’s Executive Director, Comrade
Olufemi Lawson said “need we remind the NBA Ikeja branch that other
wellmeaning Lagos civil society organisations like ours are at
liberty to rally round our members to equally protest the attempt
of the Bar to instigate chaos in our state.”

The group insisted that there was nothing wrong with the
reviewed law, saying that the Land Use Charge Law 2018, only
repealed an earlier one of 2001.

Besides, CPA explained the new law also consolidated ground
rent, tenement rate and neighbourhood improvement levy “therefore,
Lagosians would not be victims of multiple taxations.”