Block leakages and improve our revenue —Governor Oyetola tells revenue board

Abimbola Abatta, Osogbo

Osun State Governor, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola has charged the Osun Internal Revenue Service(OIRS) to do everything possible to block every financial leakage and improve the state’s revenue for Government to improve the lives of the masses.

This is just as the Governor reiterated his commitment to continue to provide social amenities as well as other infrastructures to make life better for residents of the state.

He stated these through the Commissioner for Finance, Mr Bola Oyebamiji during a revenue meeting with the Chairman and the management board of the State’s Internal Revenue Service(OIRS).

Oyetola who pledged the executive support of his administration to the OIRS stressed that development is difficult without finances, hence the need for the revenue-generating agency to work with a renewed vigour to improve revenue generation as soon as possible.

According to him, “We have a lot of commitment to our people which we must meet, the only way we can do this is to generate the funds. We just must improve on our IGR, we must look for means to block every financial leakage in our system to achieve our goal.

“I can assure you that we can have up to over 60% increase in our IGR if we can block just 20% of the leakages we have in the system, it is not “rocket science” it is achievable if we are determined and work as a team to achieve results.”