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Finance Expert Wants Incentives For Revenue Agencies
A finance expert, Clement
Nwakama, has called for the introduction of incentives for hard work to all revenue generating agencies in Nigeria so as to guarantee high productivity in generating non-oil revenue.
He said that the incentives will go a long way to boost the morale of officers in such non-oil revenue generating agencies, given the current moves to diversify the revenue generation of government.
Nwakama, a former customs officer who disclosed this while interacting with Journalists in Port Harcourt, shortly after a workshop said that the success of the Nigeria Customs Service and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in generating non-oil revenue could be due to the seven percent and five percent respectively given to them from whatever they generated.
Nwakama who is an accountant by training also stressed the need and importance of the acceptance of the electronic scheme of the Federal Government to pay salaries, contractors and other recurrent expenditures in government organizations.
“The GIFMIS, IPPIS and TSA Programmes being sponsored by the office of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) must be implemented as soon as possible in all MDAs, and once this is done, corruption and leakages of public funds will be reduced”, he said.
Nwakama also urged the Federal Government to strengthen the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2010 whose main purpose was to ensure that all revenue generating agencies did not shortchange the government.
He said every effort must be made at every levels of government to put to a stop everything that causes leakages of public funds, so as to guarantee effective management in the system.
Corlins Walter