Tax Collection In Nigeria Must Improve For Quality Healthcare To Be Delivered – Bill Gates

The co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates has come out to say that tax collection in Nigeria is low.

He recently had his say while speaking at an event, and the world has been reacting.

According to her, the low tax collection poses a challenge to adequately financing critical sectors such as health and education, and the government must do better to prove to the citizens that they are able to deliver quality healthcare consistently.

He added that there has to be a commitment to ensure that the funding of health programmes is well-managed.

His words, “Over time, there are plans for Nigeria to fund the government more than it does today. The actual tax collection in Nigeria is actually pretty low.

If citizens want the education and the health things, as they develop the confidence that these programmes can be very well run, and our foundation is involved with a lot of the exemplars that are showing the way in terms of making sure the money is spent really well, running a very efficient primary health care system where the employees are doing great work, the centres are where they should be, you don’t have underloaded centres or overloaded centres.

It’s exciting that we are driving the credibility of those health programmes and so that the citizens will feel like primary health care is amongst the priorities that should be very funded as you get some fiscal flexibility.”

WOW.