Minister Flays SDAs

The FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has vowed to deal decisive ly with any Secretariat, Department and Agency( SD A) under her supervision that wants to sabotage the efforts of government in scaling up its internal revenue generation. She also threatened to apply all constitutional means to punish any agency which fails to comply with the renewed vigour of the present FCT Administration to boost its revenue base. The minister gave the warning recently, on the sidelines of the 2020 budget preparation of the Federal Capital Territory Administration. While noting that no responsible government could run the affairs of a mega city like Abuja with budgetary provisions, Aliyu frowned on the lukewarm attitude of some revenue based agencies in driving the process. “You can quote me anywhere; I will be the first minister to discipline any erring agency or staff who wants to sabotage government’s efforts in up-scaling Internally Revenue Generation (IGR) for the administration. “This is not a threat to any agency or head of agency, but I will use the Civil Service rules and regulations to discipline any erring secretariat or staff. “It is shocking to me that despite numerous opportunities available to the administration to increase its revenue generation, some secretariats or departments are just interested in the merger budgetary allocation from the federation account. How can we develop with this type of attitude?” Aliyu said. She expressed optimism that with the support she was getting from the FCT Minister, Muhammad Musa Bello, the administration would achieve a milestone in the revenue drive, while calling on agencies to wake to their responsibilities.