Ganduje
Kano
state governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has disclosed that his
administration aims to ensure that by the end of 2016, its total
recurrent expenditure is covered by the state’s internally generated
revenue.
He
also stated that the administration plans to ensure that by the end of
2017, the whole budgetary expenditure of the state is substantially
covered by the internally generated revenue of the year.
“As
this vision is actualized, a great percentage of the state government’s
share from the Federation Account is to be lodged into Future
Generation Account, which is to be deployed to provide qualitative
education, infrastructure and better healthcare delivery services”, the
governor asserted.
Governor
Ganduje announced this during the presentation of Letters of
Appointment to staff engaged by the government’s Technical Advisers on
Improvement of IGR and Consultants undertaking Biometric Date Capture,
for civil servants in the state.
He
stated that the government is exploiting hitherto neglected sources of
revenue and making giant strides for harnessing the potentials of the
state towards improving the livelihood of the teeming populace.
This
effort, he maintained, has become necessary given the fact that the
country’s oil revenue is dropping drastically and that this has affected
the ability of all tiers of government to deliver their campaign
promises.
The
governor, therefore, stressed that the state Internal Revenue Service
was re-organized and strengthened while Consultants were engaged as
Technical Advisers on different aspects of revenue generation and
collection, who will be given commission based on amounts generated
using their ideas, to enable it meet the set target.
Dr.
Ganduje noted that the decision by the Consultants to recruit over
1,000, which is outside the payroll of the state government, to assist
towards the success of the government’s IGR reform agenda as a welcome
development.
In
his speech, the state Commissioner of Finance, Prof. Kabiru Isa Dandago
explained that activities of the State Internal Revenue Service have
been regularized and the agency is working hand in hand with it
consultants to meet the target set by government for 2016-2017.
Ameen K. Yassar,
Press Secretary
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