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Senator Ali Wakili has urged the Buhari-led administration to encourage importation of second-hand vehicles into the country.
“As a former Area Comptroller of Seme border, I have argued that the hiking of tariff on items does not help us. It takes away our attention from the anti-smuggling activities; we dissipate energy on running on one or two smugglers with the attendant risk of life on the smugglers and on our own personnel.”
“Government should know that the average citizen cannot afford to buy a new car, whether it is being produced by only PAN or other manufacturers; rather they would want to buy used cars. If they must buy second-hand cars, then we ought to encourage them to take the normal routes, charge them medium rates that they can afford to pay, and no one would want to take the tortuous smuggling routes.
“But as long as the public transportation system is faulty, and people cannot afford to buy new cars, they would rely on used cars and if you are exerting so much pressure on them in trying to own these so called tokunbo cars, they will circumvent the law.
The senator representing Bauchi South Senatorial District, also pledged to champion the reversal of the federal government automobile policy that led to increment in tariff on imported second-hand vehicles.
Source: PREMIUM TIMES
“As a former Area Comptroller of Seme border, I have argued that the hiking of tariff on items does not help us. It takes away our attention from the anti-smuggling activities; we dissipate energy on running on one or two smugglers with the attendant risk of life on the smugglers and on our own personnel.”
“Government should know that the average citizen cannot afford to buy a new car, whether it is being produced by only PAN or other manufacturers; rather they would want to buy used cars. If they must buy second-hand cars, then we ought to encourage them to take the normal routes, charge them medium rates that they can afford to pay, and no one would want to take the tortuous smuggling routes.
“But as long as the public transportation system is faulty, and people cannot afford to buy new cars, they would rely on used cars and if you are exerting so much pressure on them in trying to own these so called tokunbo cars, they will circumvent the law.
The senator representing Bauchi South Senatorial District, also pledged to champion the reversal of the federal government automobile policy that led to increment in tariff on imported second-hand vehicles.
Source: PREMIUM TIMES
