President of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) FCT state chapter, Comrade Abubakar Yakubu, has suggested other alternative means of boosting the monthly allocation to the six area councils.
He said with the drop in allocation which had been affecting council staff salaries and projects, there was the need to “look beyond what comes from the federal government and set up stronger means to enhance Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).”
Yakubu, in a recent chat with Blueprint, identified motorcycle and bicycle licences as some major areas for the council administrations to take more seriously in supporting what they got on a monthly basis.
“There is urgent need to set up measures that will support the monthly allocation from federal government, this can be possible through the council administrations looking inwards on how better to generate revenue,” he said.
The situation, he said, was inherited by the past administration making
it difficult to pay salaries and carry on other activities.
Yakubu pointed out that the issue of generating resources to run councils should be seen by everybody as the best thing that would support the present administration’s reforms in making people feel the impact of government.
He said the current administration inherited 20% of the staff monetisation arrears which is in total of less than 100 million for the 20%.
