Gov. Fashola comes for Jimi Agbaje, accuses him of tax evasion

Lagos state Governor,Fashola has accused the
state's PDP gubernatorial candidate, Jimi
Agbaje of tax evasion. While speaking at the
8th Annual Stakeholder Taxation Conference in
Ikeja yesterday, Jan. 28th, Fashola said
Agbaje's pharmaceutical company, JayKay
pharmacy has not paid the state govt four
years Land Use Charge, LUC, tax.
"LUC is ground rent and tenement rate as
they were consolidated. I know that you
have to vote next month but look at that
candidate that would need to take over
from me and be careful of who to vote
for. You will remember that in 2007, he
(Agbaje) claimed that he was in DPA and
later crossed to PDP. You know that he
manages a pharmacy called Jaykay
Pharmacy, located at 9, Randle Close,
Apapa. His pharmacy has not paid land
Use Charge for 2009, 2010, 2011 and
2012.
They paid in 2013 and 2014 because they
discovered that the election would be
holding in 2015. His pharmacy owes this
state N1, 629, 064.62. Let us do that
mathematics to see how many facilities
that funds would have provided in our
hospitals and stationary in our schools.
But this was the same person who was
complaining that the state government
spent three percent of its budget on
education. Local Government is
responsible for the management of the
primary schools and yet he has withheld
their taxes. This is the man who wants to
be your next governor. And I will advice
you that you avoid deception and tax
evader," he said.