The Movement for the Emancipation of Nigeria (MEN) categorically states that there is no valid tax law in existence to be implemented in Nigeria following the reported mutilation, alteration, and substitution of the Tax Reforms Law after its passage by the National Assembly of Nigeria.

Any attempt to enforce such a document constitutes constitutional fraud, executive lawlessness, and a grave threat to democratic governance.

MEN hereby issues a firm and unequivocal warning to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to immediately desist from any attempt to implement a tax law that did not validly emanate from the constitutional legislative process.

A bill lawfully passed by the National Assembly cannot be rewritten in secrecy, altered outside parliamentary chambers, gazetted in a distorted form, and imposed on Nigerians through executive coercion. Such conduct amounts to a civilian coup against the Nigerian people, whose sovereignty is vested in the legislature.

The 1999 Constitution (as amended) provides a clear procedure for presidential assent, observations, concurrence, or veto. Where the President has reservations, such must be formally communicated to the National Assembly for lawful reconsideration.

Any law purportedly enforced outside this procedure is null, void, and unenforceable. Implementing a mutilated tax law is therefore not reform; it is state-sanctioned fraud and the weaponization of taxation as an instrument of oppression.

At a time when Nigerians are crushed by hunger, inflation, insecurity, unemployment, and economic despair, the imposition of a fraudulent tax regime represents the height of insensitivity and tyranny. Taxation without lawful authority is oppression, and history has consistently shown that oppression provokes resistance.

MEN therefore calls on Nigerians to rise, peacefully, lawfully, and courageously, against this creeping authoritarianism. Civil society organizations, labour unions, professional bodies, traders, farmers, students, and the media must reject any attempt to enforce a tax law founded on fraud and constitutional subversion.

Legal actions must be pursued, civic voices must be amplified, and democratic pressure must be sustained. Silence in the face of illegality is complicity.

Let it be clearly stated: any tax collected under a mutilated and unconstitutional law is illegal, recoverable, and exposes all those involved in its enforcement to future personal and institutional liability. No official order can sanitize an unconstitutional act.

Nigeria is not a conquered territory to be ruled by ambush.
The Constitution must reign supreme. The will of the people must prevail.