The Third Force Forum has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Governors Forum to start the fee of between N20,000 to N40,000 to low-income earners and self-employed Nigerians as “COVID-19 Intervention Fund”.
The discussion board stated the fee must be made to individuals, who earn beneath N50,000 month-to-month.
The group posited that pressing actions should be taken to mitigate the impact of the outbreak of Coronavirus on the individuals.
The discussion board can also be asking the presidency to transform 50 per cent of the safety vote and catering finances of Aso Rock to a “COVID-19 Special Fund”.
The group stated, “Commence a program that permits companies which can be unable to remit VAT between the 20th of March 2020 and the 30th of June 2020 to take action by the 31st of March 2021, to allow a secure enterprise local weather and adaptation to the calls for of the pandemic.
“Establish a particular COVID-19 Fund Raising Committee charged with the only process of collating funds pledged from the organised personal sector, well-meaning people, worldwide neighborhood and different NGO’s. The funds will likely be used to sponsor different palliative measures just like the procurement of meals stuff, face masks, and sanitisers to each native authorities in Nigeria, relying on want.
“A moratorium on electricity tariffs for at least two months or more and facilitation of and an understanding with the telecommunications companies to commit N2000 to N5000 in Recharge and data per month over the next two months to all mobile subscribers in Nigeria as well as an emergency legislation or Executive Order allowing a three-month moratorium on landlord evictions as a result of the stay-at-home order by the government in affected cities.”
The discussion board referred to as on the National Assembly to briefly droop the large compensation bundle loved by members comprising Senate House of Representatives by 50 per cent for the rest of 2020 or the period of the nationwide shutdown.
It warned that failure to contemplate the above could set a stage for an eventual class-warfare in Nigeria.
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