Kano state government launched 10 brand new operational vehicles and advocacy T-shirts, under the Kano state Internally Generated Revenue Assurance Platform, KIGRA.
The KIGRA system is especially designed to capture and monitor all payments and transactions of all revenues generated in the state.
It further provides avenues for assessment, collection, accounting and processing of Tax Clearance Certificate electronically using specialized technological method of generating reports, in line with International standards of best practice.
Speaking during the occasion, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje charged the state Internal Revenue service “to gear up towards ensuring that revenue is collected 24 hours a day”.
“The institutional reforms we put in place at the Revenue Service have succeeded in getting more people to pay taxes. As you can see, we now erect signboards on project sites, to indicate that such infrastructure are constructed with tax payers money”, he asserted.
In his remarks, the chairman, Kano Internal Revenue Service, Sani Abdulqadir Dembo, disclosed that with the new development, the governor, the state finance Commissioner and himself, can monitor revue accruals directly room their office tables.
In another development, Gov. Ganduje, assisted by the state Commissioner of Police, Rabi’u Yusuf, decorated the governor’s Aide-de Camp, Mustafa Abubakar, with his new rank of Superintendent of Police.
Gov. Ganduje while congratulating Mustafa Abubakar on his promotion, described him “as an able, well behaved, organized and reliable fellow”, urging him to keep the spirit high.
Born in 1976 SP, Abubakar is a graduate of law, who served in Yobe, Sokoto and Kano state commands of the Nigeria Police.
