Mr Arlat Dasogot, Chairman, Plateau State Internal Revenue Service (PSIRS) has said that the service generated N17 billion from January to September 2021, as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).
Dasogot made the disclosure at the state’s revenue council whistleblowing sub-committee stakeholder engagement on Monday, in Jos.
The chairman said that the target of the service was to generate at least N2 billion monthly, but was only able to realise over a billion per month, except for June and August that was lower than a billion.
He noted that when fully implemented, the Plateau revenue law, enacted in November 2020, would significantly boost the state’s IGR.
“Efforts to implement the lawfully has been on, we have been working with our partners comprising mostly professionals.
“We are implementing the law together with Ministries, Agencies and Departments (MDAs) and we are witnessing improvements in revenues the MDA have been collecting.
“Prior to the law, the MDAs were not fully accounting for the revenues they were collecting, but with the law, they know that they must account for the revenues they collect.
“We are making progress but we are not yet there, but we are not losing hope,” he said.
He said that the whistle blowing mechanism was putting them on their toes and that the public was free to report whatever the service was not doing right.
Dasogot added that whistle blowing would help PSIRS to redefine its compass, adding that where leakages were identified, the whistleblowing should report them so that it would be taken to the revenue council to address.
Dr Nancy Katu-Ogundimu, Chairperson, whistleblowing sub-committee of the revenue council, said that the engagement was to present the whistleblowing operational guidelines and procedures to the stakeholders.
Katu-Ogundimu assured of the state revenue council’s commitment to the highest standards of transparency, accountability and probity.
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