Benue revenue service has no mandate to fund agencies – BIRS chairman Kwaghgba

The Executive Chairman of the Benue State Internal Revenue Service (BIRS), Mr Joseph Kwaghgba, has dismissed allegations by the General Manager of the Benue State Environmental Sanitation Authority (BENSESSA), Anta Igbaato, that the gross bureau collects sanitation levies but fails to money discarded evacuation operations.

Kwaghgba, who spoke with journalists successful his bureau connected Monday, described the allegation arsenic a misunderstanding of the statutory responsibilities of authorities agencies, insisting that BIRS has nary ineligible mandate to disburse funds to immoderate ministry, section oregon agency.

He explained that the work of the gross work is to identify, assess, cod and remit authorities gross into the state’s coffers, portion the merchandise of funds to authorities agencies rests with the Ministry of Finance done the Office of the Accountant-General aft legislative appropriation.

“Our mandate is precise clear. We identify, assess, mobilise and remit authorities gross to authorities coffers. It is not wrong our purview to redistribute the wealth we collect,” Kwaghgba said.

According to him, each authorities bureau receives budgetary allocations done the yearly appropriation process, portion BIRS simply generates gross to enactment the implementation of those budgets.

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