Governor Yahaya Bello, through his information commissioner, Kingsley Fanwo, lambasted his colleagues for pushing for independent collection of VAT.
The state said it supports anything that improves its IGR, and was keen on joining Rivers should FIRS appeal the judgment.
The warning followed some governors’ push to start collecting VAT in their respective states, effectively dismantling the current system of exclusive federal VAT administration.
Despite ethically restrictive socio-religious policies mainly in the North, revenue generated from economically liberal states are shared among all states under the current arrangement.
Rivers state government said it would seal up the business premises of any organisation that fails to comply with the state’s VAT law.
Ten additional COVID-19 related deaths were also recorded on August 27, 2021, increasing the nation’s fatalities to 2,308.
FG has called on the Rivers government to key into President Muhammadu Buhari regime’s home-grown school feeding programme.
The government claims resident doctors in the state are not owed salaries or benefits.
The youths called off their demonstrations after the federal government appealed to them and mobilised contractors to the site of the failed Eleme-Onne East-West road.
Governor Nyesom Wike has warned that university officials and lecturers in Rivers who rig elections in the state will get coup plotters’ punishment.
