From Muawiya Bala Idris, Katsina
Katsina State Government has flagged off a training of key stakeholders mostly revenue collectors in the state on the application of new technology to enhance revenue collection in the state.
Apart from blocking financial leakages, the training objective is also to ensure enhanced Internally Generated Revenue collection using the technology which will in turn enable the participants drawn from various revenue-generating Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) of government to have perfection.
While declaring the two-day training open at the Conference Hall of the Katsina Internal Revenue Service yesterday, the Board Chairman, Muhammad Isyaku, urged participants to fully concentrate on the training process to achieve the desired result.
Alhaji Isyaku who was represented by the Board Executive Director in charge of Revenue Operations, Almustapha Bishir explained that the state government employed the services of a professional firm to conduct the training which he believed is part of the Treasury Single Account processes the state embraced.
“We have representatives from the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Lands, Civil Service Commission, and other revenue-generating MDAs in the state. The idea is to have a handshake between revenue generation and the budget processes of the state,” Bishir added.
One of the participants, Usman Dalhat Alassan of the State Ministry of Commerce, observed that the training which involves new technology and new inventions is a welcome development and long overdue.
“This is the easiest way to effect your tax payments from wherever you are in the country; it’s as simple as ABC and is a welcome development.
“Previously Katsina State was left behind in this regard, but now with the adventure of this mechanism, one can pay his tax from the comfort of his room, house, or office without coming down to the revenue house,” he noted.
The training ended with the participants assuring readiness to discharge their assigned responsibilities with due diligence and supporting the government in blocking all financial leakages through the use of technology.