Kano State Government says it is utilizing both tab and non-tab revenue sources in order to meet up with the state revenue generation drive which is currently at only 13 per cent collection.

Addressing a five-day conference on enhancing revenue generation in Kano State, the State Commissioner for Finance, Prof. Mukhtar Dandago, said that experts were also mobilized to technically assist government in generating more revenue.

Report says that in recent times, Kano State receives only about 1.5 billion naira monthly as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), which is now said to have dropped to less than 1.3 billion naira.

This situation has been blamed on lack of training and capacity building of revenue officers in the state.

Prof Dandago said that the recent revenue collection in the state cannot finance the state’s recurrent expenditure projects, due to the inability of government to tap all sources of revenue collection for preceding years.

Prof Dandago however said that the Government has already established an implementation committee to execute the recommendations of the state IGR committee, in addition to hiring of experts to advice government on the possible ways forward.

Kano State is said to have a debt of over 300 billion naira to settle, in addition to financing new projects introduced by Governor Ganduje during the last 100 days of his administration.