Senator Jimoh Ibrahim ( Ondo South), has informed the United Nations that proposing a global tax to fund the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is inappropriate and unacceptable, as the international system is anarchic and lacks the authority to comply.
Senator Ibrahim who chairs the Senate Committee on Inter – Parliamentary Affairs , stated this at an inter parliamentary session in New York, United States on Thursday .
According to him, global taxes will further exacerbate inequality within the geocentric system and could also increase poverty, undermining the United Nations’ efforts to eradicate poverty by 2030.
As an alternative, Senator Ibrahim suggested that environmental polluters compensate Africa to alleviate the debt burden.
” It is time for African legislators to act decisively and compel the rest of the world to pay compensation for climate impacts so that we can finance our SDGs”, he said .
He posited that among other issues, the SDGs struggle to achieve the goal of poverty eradication should be more focused upon through required inclusion of relevant stakeholders .
The year 2030 according to him, is approaching rapidly, emphasising a major shortfall in achieving the primary goal of poverty eradication as projected by the United Nations which according to him, needs to reflect inward, as time is critical for the success of the SDGs.
He therefore called for review of the target year but however praised President Bola Tinubu for upholding his commitment to the SDGs in his budget proposal at the United Nations Inter parliamentary.
