Enugu: Mbah assures business community of tax holiday

The PDP governorship candidate in Enugu, Dr Peter Mbah, has assured the entire business community in Enugu and potential investors of a friendly, transparent, thriving and attractive business environment.

He stressed that his administration would not overburden business owners with needless taxes but rather grant them tax holiday.

Mbah disclosed this on Friday at Iheakpu-Awka and Ovoko towns, headquarters of Igboeze South East and Ekete Development Centres respectively, in Enugu.

He stated that he had already put up robust and excellent plans that would spur a quantum leap in the status of the state economy.

Mbah further re-echoed his resolve to move the state away from the conventional dependence on federal allocations to sourcing revenues internally through the exploitation of the abundant human and material resources by converting them into productive assets.

While demonstrating how he intended to finance the ambitious projects as marshalled in his manifesto without over taxing or belabouring citizens with unreasonable taxes, Mbah said the plan would be developed.

The governorship candidate stressed that his government would disrupt the traditional financing model driven by creative alternative financing model by engaging private sector investors.

He said, in achieving industrialisation and growing the economy of the state from US$4.4 billion to US$30 billion, noted that the world is migrating to digitization through the deployment of information and communication technology which the state under his leadership would tap into.

Mbah further added that his administration would partner, train, and engage youths in technical and vocational skills that would drive the digital economy he planned for the state.

He extolled the warm reception and massive turnouts by the two development centres, assured the people that the Iheakpu-Awka-Ulu-and-Owerre-Iheaka and Itchi-Unadu-Alor-Agu roads would be constructed as it was captured in his 10,000 kilometers of roads in his manifesto.

The governorship candidate reiterated that the Ekete market would be expanded, with more hospitals upgraded, equipped with modern facilities and staffed with medics 24 hours daily.

Speaking earlier, the Director General (DG) of the Peter Mbah and PDP Campaign Organisation, Chief Ikeje Asogwa, vowed that Igboeze South local government area and by extension, the Nsukka zone, had already been won.

He stated that the zone had already been delivered to Mbah and other PDP candidates in the forthcoming elections because of the caliber of experienced political gladiators in the zone.

Asogwa boasted that as the DG of the campaign team, he would spread his political tentacles to the grassroots through his foot soldiers and deliver landslide victory for the party.

According to him, the battle for the soul of 2023 is already won for the PDP and their results will be to prove some points that PDP is still in charge.

The former PDP State Chairman, while describing Mbah as a man of integrity, character, capacity and competence, added that the governorship frontrunner is a product everyone would be proud to identify with and market even on the streets.

This, he said, is because of his excellent track records and history of success in the private sector.