The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa ( CAPPA) , is one of the local NGOs that has resolved to see that the SSB tax is enforced by the President Bola Tinubu -led Nigerian government.
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) on Friday, hit back at non -governmental organisations in the country for mounting pressures on the federal government to increase Sugar -Sweetened Beverages (SSB) taxation.
The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa ( CAPPA) , is one of the local NGOs that has resolved to see that the SSB tax is enforced by the President Bola Tinubu -led Nigerian government.
MAN, in a position document, ‘SSB Taxation: Setting The Record Straight on Public Health and Economic Impacts’, called for a balanced evidence based approach to the issue.
Segun Ajayi-Kadir, its Director- General, called on the NGOs to stop the misleading narratives being peddled about SSB consumptions in Nigeria.
“Rather than promoting evidenced based dialogues, they continued to push alarmist narratives that are often grounded with misleading data- designed to instil fear by unfairly demonising sugar Sweetened beverages and linking it to life – threatening health conditions.
This approach not only distorts public understanding but also risk undermining the likelihood of thousands of Nigerians who depends on the sector.
“The narratives by the NGOs that Nigeria is one of the highest SSB consuming countries in the world is fake, unfounded and not based on empirical evidence,”he said.
“Nigeria’s per capita consumption of sugar is 7.1kg as at 2023, well below the WHO recommended 9.1kg and the global average of 21.4kg,” said Ajayi-Kadir .
