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The state used to general about N500 million as IGR monthly in 2011.
The Kano State Government says it generates N2 billion as internally generated revenue (IGR) monthly.
The state’s Commissioner of Finance, Abdulahi Gaya, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano on Thursday.
“We are making N2 billion monthly as our IGR as against between N400 million and N450 million monthly in 2011,” he said.
He said the State Government was able to make significant improvements in revenue generation because of some measures it put in place.
“This administration was able to raise its IGR profile by blocking all avenues for financial leakages and corruption.
“These tendencies were hitherto being exploited by some government officials to siphon public funds,” he said.
He also attributed the rise in the state’s internal revenue to more accountability, transparency and adherence to due process in government.
The commissioner said that money made by the state was partly being used to pay workers’ salaries and other allowances. He said that the State Government was committed to the judicious use of public funds, adding that the provision of infrastructure was sacrosanct to the administration.
“The crisis bedeviling E-payment of salary is no more a problem and is now history.
“Any worker not receiving his or her salary should report to the committee we have set up,” he said.
(NAN)
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