{"id":112598,"date":"2019-05-01T07:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T06:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=112598"},"modified":"2019-05-01T07:45:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T06:45:54","slug":"are-those-who-oppose-borrowing-ready-for-increased-taxes-fashola-asks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=112598","title":{"rendered":"Are those who oppose borrowing ready for increased taxes?, Fashola asks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%2275400%22,%22view_mode%22:%22embedded%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22full%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_caption%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_attribution%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_align%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22center%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22,%22link_text%22:null%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Fashola-Asks-Those-Who-Dont-support-Borrowing-Are-They-Ready-For-Increased-Taxes.jpg\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span>The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has replied to those criticising the Nigerian Government for borrowing money.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, he asked such people to provide an alternative to sourcing funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who say we shouldn\u2019t borrow must have an alternative answer to where we will get the money,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Those who don\u2019t support borrowing, are they ready to support increased taxes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He blamed the slow pace of works on the federal roads across the country on the paucity of funds.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to defend the decision of the government to borrow monies to fund its various projects in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere do we get the money,?\u201d Fashola queried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not from President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s salary or the National Assembly\u2019s salary; we are talking about quantifiable, substantial billions of naira that need to be spent to pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is how you move money around the economy because once you pay the contractors, they order sand, cement, iron rods. They don\u2019t keep all those things. Where the money stops, supply stops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fashola assurance the public that the government would continue to improve the economic wellbeing of the people through infrastructural development in the country.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has replied to those criticising the Nigerian Government for borrowing money. Addressing journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, he asked such people to provide an alternative to sourcing funds. \u201cThose who say we shouldn\u2019t borrow must have an alternative answer to where we will get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7751,11827,4797],"class_list":["post-112598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-babatunde-raji-fashola","tag-borrowing","tag-fg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}