By Daniel Tyokua
The Abuja Municipal Area council said it has begun moves to flush out staff that are sabotaging revenue generation in the respective areas.
The Chairman Hon.Christopher Maikakalangu in a meeting with heads of departments and staff of the the revenue department of the council, frowned at the lukewarm attitude of some revenue-based technical consultants in driving the process.
He warned that he would deploy all constitutional means to punish any staff or tech consultants under his supervision that failed to comply with the renewed vigour of the the new AMAC administration to boost its revenue base.
“I will be the first Chairman to discipline any erring technical consultant or staff who wants to sabotage government’s efforts in up-scaling Internally Revenue Generation (IGR) for the Administration.
“Any where I go I will repeat it weather we like it or not this is new era, Candido administration has gone and this is Maikalangu’s administration I don’t talk much I believe in action. On that note I am here to address you on one important fact.
“It is unfortunate. I was with the Minister of the FCT recently , I overheard somebody telling him if he is given this AMAC to manage, he will generate revenue not less than 15 billion in a year. And he cited so many things that will aid it, he asked how many bank does Abaji Area Council have and it is only one. And in AMAC he asked how many banks, filling stations and hotels do we have and yet we can not still pay salaries it is a shame.
“We can not continue this way because people are out there collecting money without remitting to the council and why is it so. If go out now you will discover different types of receipts but by next the announcement will go viral and nobody should pay cash outside. Who so ever that want to pay revenue to AMAC must come this council to get clearance, go to the bank, make cash payment obtain the teller return back to the council and take back your receipt.
“Please and please I repeat this stay away of any act of criminality because we are going out completely with monitoring and enforcement team that will checkmate any criminal activities. In as much as you are my brother and sister do the right thing because AMAC must move higher and greater than we met it” he said.
