Alhaji Hamma Adama Njabari, Chairman Adamawa State BIR
Impressed by an improvement in Internally Generated Revenue(IGR) in Adamawa state, the Members of the state House of Assembly on Tuesday passed a vote of confidence on the Chairman and Management of the state Board of Internal Revenue.
The unanimous decision of the Honourable Members was in recognition of the outstanding performance of the Chairman, Alhaji Hamman Adama Njabari, and the Management of the board in enhancing revenue profile of the state to the tune of #9.705 billion in 2019.
According to the Legislators, the IGR of the State in 2017 stood at #6.045 billion and #6.509 billion in 2018 respectively, saying that the IGR was suddenly jacked up by the board from the aforestated amount to #9.705 billion in 2019, and that the revenue so far generated in 2020 is equally encouraging.
The passage of the confidence vote on Alhaji Njabari and the Management of the board followed a consideration, approval and adoption of the report of the House Committee on Finance, Appropriation and Budget on the 2021-2023 Medium Term Expenditure and Fiscal Strategy Paper.
The Committee on Finance under headship of Hon. Kate Raymond Mamuno(Demsa) earlier told the Honourable House in its report that the revenue generated in 2019 was #9.705 billion of the budgeted #15.651 billion, representing 62% collection.
It explained that taxes were the major contributor to the IGR as #6.11 billion were collected out of the actual total of #9.705 generated, saying it was followed by fees as #1.848 billion were also generated.
According to the Legislators, despite the effect of the dreaded Covid -19 pandemic on the economy, the state's 2020 IGR has improved based on the 2020 budget as the half year collection revealed 48.78% as against 38.33%.
Hon. Mamuno's Committee informed the Honourable Members that the total projected revenue for 2021, 2022 and 2023 stood at #155.034 billion, #165.009 billion and #271.96 billion respectively, saying that the state IGR collection has been on the average of #7.402 billion annually for the past 3 years.
It further stated that the International best practice requires that 55% of #1550. 034 billion(#85.270 billion) should be allocated to capital, while 45% of #155.034 billion (69.770billion) to recurrent expenditure for the growth and development of the state.
After the approval and the adoption of the report, the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Aminu Iya Abbas who presided over the sitting, directed the clerk to communicate the resolutions of the Honourable House to Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri.
However, it was in the light of the foregoing that the Honourable Members during the plenary session unanimously passed a vote of confidence on the Chairman for performing creditably well in generating revenue for the services of the state.
Moving a motion to that effect, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Legislator, Hon. Abdullahi Umar Yapak(Verre constituency) told his colleagues that effort of the board under Alh Njabari deserves commendation, and called on his colleagues to join him in passing vote of confidence on the Chairman.
It was on this note that the state Lawmakers went ahead and passed a vote of confidence as prayed by the sponsor of the motion, and urged on the Chairman to expedite effort in order to generate more resources for Adamawa.
On her part, the Chairman House Committee on Finance, Budget and Appropriation, Hon. Kate Raymond Mamuno (Demsa constituency) had while speaking to newsmen, attributed the improvement of the IGR of the State on the professional competence of the Chairman.
Hon. Kate stated that even the fact that the year 2020 is not ended, the 2020 IGR is superp, explaining that the commitment of the Chairman and his management team brought about the improvement of the IGR; hence the collective decision to pass the vote of confidence on him.
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