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🇳🇬 Dear Nigerians, We have carefully reviewed the released Certified True Copies of the Tax Reform Acts and the gazettes your government now parades. We have also taken note of the dates boldly printed on them. With that established, let us be clear. Your government is not smart. They simply assume many of you are ignorant. After weeks of sustained public pressure, they issued this clumsy press statement claiming they had “released” the gazetted copies of the Tax Reform Acts, applauding themselves as leaders of a transparent government. That claim is false. It is insulting and honestly misleading. While the world was focused on Venezuela, the House of Representatives, in quiet coordination with the Presidency, released what it now calls Certified True Copies (CTCs) of the four Tax Reform Acts. They even congratulated themselves and praised the Speaker’s so-called “transparency drive.” If you examine the released files, you will find presidential assent pages attached and a Google Drive link to gazettes dated June 26, 2025. This is nowhere near transparency. It is damage control. The timing tells the real story. The four Acts are now being presented as the “AUTHENTIC” versions, conveniently cleansed of the coercive provisions that triggered national outrage. No compulsory 20 percent appeal deposits. No unchecked garnishee powers without court orders. Oversight restored. Due process acknowledged. Fine. At least public fears have been partially allayed. But this question remains unavoidable: if these gazetted copies were genuinely published in June 2025, why were Nigerians previously shown different texts? Why wait until January 2026, after implementation commenced on January 1, before releasing these CTCs? Why only act after public outrage peaked, following Hon. Dasuki’s warning and interventions by other prominent Nigerians? This release is an admission by stealth. They are loudly conceding that rogue versions indeed circulated. They refuse to say who inserted those clauses, who printed them, who distributed them, and under whose authority Nigerians were subjected to texts that were never law. The press statement dismisses the earlier versions as “unauthorised and misleading,” instructs citizens to ignore them, and praises institutional memory while the Betara-led ad hoc committee drags on with no timeline, no findings, and no consequences. Nigerians, re-gazetting does not cure the offence. It sanitises the record and evades responsibility. Post-assent alteration is not an error. It is forgery. It is uttering. It is conspiracy. It is misconduct in public office. It is legislative usurpation under Section 4 of the Constitution. If the CTCs reflect what the National Assembly actually passed, then the earlier circulating texts were criminal fakes and indeed doctored, and someone must answer for publishing fake laws as binding statutes. So far, there are no conclusions. No prosecutions. No apologies. Only PR and forced normalisation as usual. But the deeper danger here is precedent. If laws can be quietly altered and later “corrected” without consequence, then legislation becomes an executive plaything. Nigerians, please do not be distracted by executive conspiracies and shenanigans. We are not fools like the nepotistic zombies who applaud their foolishness. This was a legislative smokescreen. Please let us continue to demand the essentials. A full independent probe must be conducted. Those who altered our laws must be identified. They must be prosecuted once forgery is confirmed. There must be immediate suspension of implementation until this issue is cleared. Anything less normalises CONSTITUTIONAL TREASON. Laws must not become playthings in the hands of executive mischief makers. We are not fools, even though we are led by chronic kakistocrats. #SuspendTaxReformAct #SayNoToForgedLaws