LCC TO UP REVENUE COLLECTION
THE Lusaka City Council is targeting to go flat out to collect outstanding revenue, Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa has said.
Mr Sampa said it was time the local authority upped its game and collected all revenue that was due to it.
The Mayor agreed with calls by Lusaka province Minister Bowman Lusambo on the need for the local authority to boost its revenue collection and generation because it had the capacity to do so.
Mr Sampa told the Daily Nation that it was the council’s goal to collect all what was due to it.
He said it was each and everyone’s responsibility to ensure increased revenue collection and cutting down on costs but that this was, however, only possible if all workers had a business mindset.
“That is our goal and we want to heed the minister’s
“That is our goal and we want to heed the minister’s call as a council. We need to up our game to collect all revenue due to the council and we must also have a business mind-set to increase revenue.” - Mr Sampa
call as a council. We need to up our game to collect all revenue due to the council and we must also
have a business mind-set to increase revenue,” Mr Sampa said.
Last week, Lusaka
Province Minister Bowman Lusambo charged that he would engage the Ministry of Finance to consider reducing the Lusaka City Council’s (LCC) equalisation fund because “the local authority had gone to sleep”.
Mr Lusambo said it was unacceptable that LCC being the richest council was failing to generate resources on its own.
He said the local authority should not depend on equalisation fund as its main source of funding, but that it should become innovative and work with other government departments to generate resources.
The minister attributed the council’s failure to work to the expectations of the people to lack of discipline and disunity.
Mr Lusambo said the Lusaka council alone would be able to pay other councils if workers were fully committed to collecting revenue.