People suffering from Type 2 diabetes have solicited for an increase in tax on sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs).
The World Health Organisation, WHO, recommends 20 per cent taxation on SSBs while the federal government slammed 10 percent on it, with the Ministry of Health recently saying it has complying with the WHO’s recommendation in view.
The Diabetes sufferers at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja on a mission to educate the public about the risk of contracting the disease, said the advice of the world body must be heeded.
“We are calling on government to increase taxation on SSBs; we call on government to go above 20 per cent recommendation by World Health Organisation (WHO).
“My 15-year-old daughter is also diabetic. She probably took to eating and drinking sugary drinks,” one of them, 51-year-old Peter Agada said.
