Thousands Of Burkina Faso Civil Servants Protest New Tax

Protesters take part in a demonstration called by the workers unions against the imposition of bonuses for civil servants, in Ouagadougou, on March 7, 2020. OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFPThousands of Burkina Faso civil servants took to the streets of Ouagadougou on Saturday to protest against a new tax on bonus payments.

Between 10,000-20,000 took part in the demonstrations, some singing the national anthem and chanting “bread and freedom for the people”, an AFP reporter saw.According to authorities it was needed to bring civil servants into line with private sector workers. Of the country’s 200,000 civil servants, 190,000 saw their salary in February decrease by 1,000-5,0000 West African CFA francs .

“Workers are being crushed by so many taxes. This new tax will not change anything in the country as long as the leaders do not make the competent management of the public good a priority,” health worker Sayouba Compaore, 43, told AFP.President Roch Marc Christian Kabore, elected in 2015, had pledged to reduce poverty through an ambitious national economic and social development plan.

Jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso have killed around 800 people and forced 800,000 from their homes since 2015.

If na Nigeria it will be another story, useless channels

This is exactly what Nigerians, not only civil servants, should have done when VAT was unreasonably and wickedly increased by this current Executive in connivance with it's puppet, the National Assembly.

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