The government, in a bid to deliver on its promises to the people, organised a three-day retreat to elicit robust and rigorous discussions on the state’s revenue vis-à-vis budget performance next year.
The government, in a communique, stated that the performance of the 2016 budget, the budget proposal, performance of IGR and projects among others were reviewed at the retreat.
The communique held that for sustainable good governance, the minimum that the state requires monthly is not less than N10 billion.
It added that the success of the proposed 2017 budget is dependent on aggressive revenue drive that takes IGR to between N5 and N6 billion monthly.
It also stressed that the state’s budget estimates should be driven by revenue with the need to set up committees to: review existing revenue heads; determine genuine heads of revenues and conduct realistic assessments of what can be generated.
“State Asset Management Agency (O’SAMA) to be established for mapping, custody and management of all the state’s assets, particularly land and vacant school properties across the state.”
The communique also emphasised that for effective implementation of the Land Use Charge Law, it is resolved that local government staff should be trained and engaged for the identification, enumeration, categorisation of properties, and service of assessment notices.
It also noted that abattoirs should be set up across the state with private sector involvement to enhance health and sanitation.
