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Enugu State Internal Revenue Service (ESIRS) has recruited over 200 workers to address loopholes in tax payment and enhance revenue collection, and boost massive infrastructural developments across the state.

Addressing the new employees at a strategic training programme anchored by Price Waterhouse Cooper at the Nike Lake Hotel, Enugu, yesterday, Governor Peter Mbah, who was represented by the secretary to the state government (SSG), Prof Chidiebere Onyia, urged them to ensure the success of the government‘s revenue drive.

He said the government was committing over N1 billion to every Smart Green School project in each of the state‘s 260 electoral wards, stressing that this had never happened before.

“The government is completing the International Conference Centre, restoring the Hotel Presidential, which was the pride of Enugu, as well as building Smart Green Schools, Type 2 Primary Health Care Centers, among others.

He stated that the state has over 1000 projects going on simultaneously and will require increased revenue to complete them”.

Impressed with the progress of revenue ESIRS so far, the SSG commended the revenue agency‘s chairman for a job well done, saying: „The ESIRS Chairman here, along with his team, has done a great job collecting and enforcing tax laws. We have been accountable because this money is the people‘s money, and we are responsible for ensuring it is tracked and used effectively. We are on the right track, having seen our IGR rise astronomically far more than we did previously.“

Also, the Commissioner for Finance, Dr Nathaniel E. Urama, clarified that the recruitment aimed to leapfrog revenue collection and block existing loopholes.

„We are here to support what the governor promised Ndi-Enugu and ensure it comes to fulfilment. With this extensive recruitment, the ESIRS is positioned to revolutionise revenue collection in Enugu State, ensuring that funds are generated and utilised efficiently for the benefit of the people.

„The people of Enugu are already seeing things working to their expectations because things are changing. The disruptive innovation is already ongoing; people are even willing to pay their taxes because they see that what they are paying is being used. From this number we have recruited and the revenue to be collected, I am sure that given the dedication and zeal of the governor willing to use the state’s money to help move residents out of poverty, Enugu will become the destination of choice”, he said.

Responding, the Chairman of ESIRS, Emmanuel Ekene Nnamani, gave assurance that the agency would continue to meet and surpass people‘s expectations.

„We must prove to the governor that recruiting 200 young staff benefits the state. The recruits would bring in fresh energy, enabling the state to double its revenue collection within a few months,“ he said.

Tabithatim:
https://leadership.ng/enugu-revenue-agency-employs-200-staff/

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

wellmax:
Right move to increase IGR.

Taking a cue from the leaders in the SW.

All the best Enugu.

Tabithatim:
https://leadership.ng/enugu-revenue-agency-employs-200-staff/

IGBOPROMISE1:
Just hope they find enough funds to complete all these ambitious projects! Just completing the smart green schools for the 260 wards will gulp 260 billion naira! There should be a medium-term development plan for the state….say for the duration of Mbahs’ 1st term, in which they should aim to complete all the proposed projects. There’s no need to rush to complete them all at a go and in just one or two years!

I’m impressed with governance in Enugu state so far!

IGBOPROMISE1:
Will you keep quiet! ‘Taking a cue from the leaders in the SW’ my black ass! The Enugu governor is putting effort into revenue generation knowing the dearth of funds he faces in provision of projects in his state, and this has nothing to do with the SW! The way you talk, one would think you lot invented the board of internal revenue for states!

IGBOPROMISE1:
Will you keep quiet! ‘Taking a cue from the leaders in the SW’ my black ass! The Enugu governor is putting effort into revenue generation knowing the dearth of funds he faces in provision of projects in his state, and this has nothing to do with the SW! The way you talk, one would think you lot invented the board of internal revenue for states!