Kogi State Internal Revenue Service (KGIRS) under the new leadership of the executive chairman, Aliyu Inda Salami, has stated that it had recorded a growth of N300 million in the revenue generation of the state
Blueprint reports that the effort was made possible as a result of recent developments in the Service which border “chiefly around operational restructuring that focuses on effective and efficient revenue collections.”
Salami, who disclosed this in Lokoja during a two-day retreat to equip the staff of the organisation, said the effort was geared towards increasing the state’s IGR to N3 billion monthly.
Salami advised the staff to be open-minded in receiving and implementing the nuggets from the retreat as they would be change agents in their individual job responsibilities.
He also encouraged the staff to be ambitious and goal-oriented even in their personal pursuits as “these will eventually affect the growth of the Service in a positive way.”
The special guest of the occasion and the chief of staff to the governor of Kogi state, Chief Edward Onoja, in his remarks, gave a comparative analysis of Kogi state and Kwara state IGRs, saying the latter “leads in the North-central region” of the country.
He said Kogi state “has all it takes to be number one in the North-central owing to the various opportunities that should give the state leadership in revenue collections.”
Onoja urged the management and staff to intensify efforts at making sure that they place the state on the national map in the area of revenue generations.
Earlier, the resource person, Mr. Chika Mbonu, Lead Partner, KBSC Advisory, in his paper presentation, titled “KGIRS Project 3B – The Change Mantra,” said “change, as it is generally known, is constant; a process and not an event, a journey and not a destination, and the conveyor belt on which every business institution ispropelled.”
He said the change of occupational mindset, “if honestly adhered to,” would make Kogi State Internal Revenue Service “self-profiting from its internally generated revenues.”
The two-day retreat was put together to equip the staff and also chart the path towards becoming the foremost state in IGR collections in the North-central by the end of 2019, and be one of Nigeria’s leading IGR States by the year 2021.
