The Sanity Multi-Efforts Limited has declared that Nigeria’s broken revenue collection system amounts to economic sabotage and must be dismantled immediately.
In a hard-hitting statement issued in Lokoja, the revenue enforcement and partnership company said Nigerians are being taxed twice daily: first by law, and second by force through illegal roadblocks, fake taskforces, and unreceipted cash collections.
“Revenue is not just about how much government collects. It is about how government collects it,” the company said. “Right now, the method is destroying the economy faster than any policy can fix it.”
Sanity Multi-Efforts Limited said the country is running a fragmented, manual system where multiple groups demand payments without coordination, standardization, or records. The result, it said, is lost government revenue, broken public trust, and hidden costs that every Nigerian pays at the market.
“When a driver is stopped three times before 9 a.m. for unverified levies, he does not absorb that cost. You pay it when transport fare goes up. You pay it when tomato prices rise. You pay it when cement costs more,” the statement said. “That is economic sabotage disguised as revenue.”
The company rejected calls for more enforcement or higher rates, insisting that the only fix is system reform. It demanded a national shift to structured, transparent, and verifiable collection — where every kobo is defined, authorized, and tracked.
Sanity Multi-Efforts Limited, a registered company born out of the advocacy work of the Sanity Multi-Efforts Forum, said it is now executing revenue partnerships with Internal Revenue Services, Ministries of Transport, Signage Agencies, and security operatives to end cash-at-the-roadside.
“We are not a think-tank. We are the cleanup crew,” the statement quoted Prince Dan. Olaitan Dada, Managing Director of Sanity Multi-Efforts Limited, as saying. “Our job is to dismantle illegal roadblocks, flush out impostors damaging the name of government, and install systems that work. Roads are for movement, not money.”
He added: “When collection is lawful, revenue is predictable. When revenue is predictable, governance has a backbone. Until then, every illegal stop on Nigerian highways is a tax on national progress.”
