IGR: Gov Ahmed targets monthly revenue
- Tope Sunday
- Jul 2, 2015
- 2 min read
*Plus agencies to drive new economic policy
As the Kwara State moves to increase its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to augument the frequent shortfall from the federation account to the state, National Pilot, has reliably gathered that the state's Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, would strengthen some of the state's agencies and parastatals to drive his new economic policy.
Also, the governor, according to a source close to his administration, targets a -N3billion- monthly IGR from the present N800million with a view to bailing the state out of the current financial challenges.
The governor, it will be recalled, recently signed an IGR agency bill into law as a means of improving the revenue base of the state.
The source, who spoke with this medium in Ilorin on Monday, hinted that Ahmed had repositioned some of the agencies and parastatals tipped for his new economic drive.
The source added that Ahmed, who is determined to block all leakages in the state and take it out of financial mess, had reportedly directed the state's Bureau of Lands, Kwara State Signage and Advertisement Agency (KWASAA), Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency (KWEPA); Kwara Harmony Holdings and other state's agencies to buck up for the new economic policy.
''The state Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah in his quest to take the state out of current economic brouhaha, is poised to making use of the state's Bureau of Lands; Kwara State Signage and Advertisement Agency (KWASAA); Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency; Kwara State Harmony Holdings:; the Town Planning Authority; the State's Water Board to drive the state's economy.
''Also, all the state's revenue generating establishment such as state Courts; Marriage, Birth and Death Registry; all the state's owned media organisations; Vehicular Inspection Office (VIO); KWATMA, among others will be used for the purpose.
''The governor has given the heads of these establishments the marching order to buck up for the task ahead and this was one of the reasons the recent retreat for the seminar for the General Managers of the state's owned agencies and parastatals was held.
''The seminar was organised with the governor's directive to all the head of the government's agencies to buck up for his new IGR drive and to block all leakages in their offices,'' the source added.
The source continued: ''The government is making moves to plug all the leakages to increase the state's Internally Generated Revenue. With this, all money coming to the coffers of the Kwara State Government must go through the banks in order to foreclose its diversion.
''The governor is determined not to leave any debt for his successor and base on his N3billion IGR target, he has given all the state's revenue institutions the directive to buck up and swim into action.
''The government since the short fall in federal allocation started has been clipping the financial commitment or requirement to deliver, especially his payment of salary to the civil servants in the state and he is ever determined that all the state's owned establishments are instrumental to this''.
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