Reduce Wastage Merge MDA's Obasanjo Tells Goverment

                                 

Ex President Obasanjo advised that the 36 state should reduce cost of running government by merging inefficient  Ministries, Department and Agencies with viable ones to make them economically buoyant at this time the country's is facing economic downturn.


Obasanjo  said this on Tuesday while welcoming the Chairman, Joint Tax Board and Federal Inland Revenue Service, Dr. Babatunde Fowler, accompanied by the 36 chairmen of states’ revenue boards to his Hilltop Presidential residence, Abeokuta.
Obasanjo, who had a closed-door meeting  with the tax managers across the country, stated that government should be slimmer to reduce wasteful spending and that President Muhammadu Buhari and the governors across the country should not only reduce cost of governance, they should also show the citizenry what they had been doing with taxes and levies that citizens had been paying to governments.

“When times are hard, that is when the government needs more Internally Generated Revenue, and it is also the time that those from whom the government would want to generate funds from are finding it hard to get money.

What do we have to do? They must continue to try to increase, as much as possible, what each state can generate in terms of Internally Generated Revenue. But states must also embark on a number of things.

“One, reduce waste. Two, they have to look into becoming slimmer. Government can do a lot by looking at their own establishments by bringing together institutions that do not have to continue to exist separately.

“And, generally, they must also show that the money they generate, the tax that the citizens pay are well utilised.

“I think these are some of the things we have to do to get us out of the tight situation that we are all in, and we pray that the tax will roll in sooner than later.”