{"id":14628,"date":"2015-07-08T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T12:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14628"},"modified":"2015-07-08T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T12:24:31","slug":"poor-allocation-to-statesimo-communities-to-raise-3000-tax-payers-or-face-dissolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14628","title":{"rendered":"Poor Allocation To States:Imo Communities To Raise 3,000 Tax Payers Or Face Dissolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=14629\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14629\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/imo.jpg\" alt=\"imo\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/imo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/imo-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by okey Alozie<br \/>\nPoor allocation to  the states has raised serious concern to  Imo Rescue Mission Administration.<br \/>\nAgainst  this backdrop, the three arms of  government in Imo comprising Legislature, Executive and Judiciary have agreed to reduce expenditure and improve  internally generated revenue (IGR) without delay.<br \/>\nBriefing newsmen at  Imo Government House Owerri yesterday, the Speaker  Imo State House of Assembly,  Rt Hon Acho Ihim, hinted that new reforms have  been mapped out as agreed by the 3 organs of Government as a solution to the current economic  crises  which came  as  a result  of global Economic  meltdown in which  Imo State according to him is  the worst  hit.<br \/>\nIn the new reform according  to information,  government has resolved  to set  up  a special mobile court that will move  round  the  27  local government  areas  to  try offenders  and  punish them  accordingly.<br \/>\nThe government went ahead  to  announce  that  each autonomous community in Imo state must  raise up to 3000 tax payers as  any community  that  is  not  able  to do  so will be scraped out  as a  recognized autonomous community in the state .<br \/>\nIt was also disclosed that the state government is making serious  moves to decongest  the prison.<br \/>\nSome  heavy-weight  politicians who spoke to  our reporter at  Imo Government House on the new development said  it  is  a civic  responsibility of  every  adult citizen  of  the state to  pay  tax as at  when due.<br \/>\nMeanwhile youths of the state  have  vowed  to resist  any attempt  to  force  them to  pay  tax.  A cross session  of  women and  youths comprising    graduates  and  low  income earners on Monday complained that the government  is imposing a lot  of  hardship on  them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by okey Alozie Poor allocation to the states has raised serious concern to Imo Rescue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14630,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14628\/revisions\/14630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}