The Niger Government on Tuesday said it would on Friday close multiple bank accounts of its revenue generating Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on Friday toward curbing wastages.
The Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe, made this known at a revenue stakeholders’ meeting in Minna.
He said that the measure would promote the transparency and accountability programme of the government.
“The e-collection platform will consolidate our revenue drive in Niger state and bring all the revenue generating MDAs to the Treasury Single Account (TSA) pool,” Balarabe said.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the commissioner, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Alhaji Zakari Abubakar, however, explained that the development would not stop some MDAs from using consultants to collect revenue.
He explained that the state would work out an arrangement on the sharing formula of collected revenue among the MDAs and other arms.
Also speaking, Chairman, Niger Board of Internal Revenue, Alhaji Husein Mohammed, urged the revenue generating agencies to work with the board toward consolidating the revenue drive.
Similarly, Malam Aliyu Musa, a representative of Cogent Works Company, the firm in charge of the automated e-collection platform for the state, solicited the support of the MDAs to enable the new revenue-collection policy to succeed.
(NAN)
