OGIRS CALLS FOR CITIZENS’ SUPPORT TO GROW IGR
Taxable adults in Ogun State have been called upon to support the drive to grow the state's Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), by embracing voluntary payment of appropriate taxes, as and when due.
Executive Chairman of the Ogun State Internal Revenue Service (OGIRS), Mr. Olugbenga Olaleye, made the call while defending his Agency's budget of over
Mr. Olaleye said citizens' support for the present administration could only be manifested when they voluntarily pay their taxes, to enable government embark on developmental projects that would benefit them, calling for profitable ideas, especially in areas that had not been harnessed to grow the IGR.
While pledging the readiness of the members of Assembly to help OGIRS achieve the set target and surpass it, Hon. Tella Babatunde, representing Abeokuta North Constituency, enjoined the Chairman to initiate Bills to the house for passage, to enhance the agency’s performance.
The Chairman and his team were commended for the achievements recorded so far, tasking them to work harder in the coming year, to boost the IGR without relying much on federal allocation.
Abolanle Ogunlami,
Head, Information Unit, OGIRS
OGUN INTRODUCES BOOTS SALES MARKETS FOR YULETIDE
In order to eliminate illegal street trading and provide succour to seasonal traders, who always flood the streets, especially roadsides and setbacks during festive periods to make quick sales without environmental and health considerations, Ogun State Government has commenced "Boot Sales Markets", to solve the perennial problem in the state capital, Abeokuta.
In a statement signed by the Commissioner for Environment, Ola Oresanya, the Boot Sales Markets, currently operational were at the M.K.O. Abiola International Stadium Kuto and Farmers Market, Asero, both in Abeokuta, open daily from nine o'clock in the morning to four o'clock in the evening.
The unconventional markets would allow seasonal traders to take advantage of the festival period to display their products and wares in the boots of their cars, vans and makeshift stalls to prospective and willing buyers in organised, healthy and safe environment, instead of selling illegally on roadsides, thereby constituting nuisance to motorists and pedestrians.
For seamless sales, all forms of wares, foodstuffs and utensils were allowed at the M.K.O. Abiola International Stadium, while livestock products, such as chickens, eggs and turkey, would be at the Farmers Market in Asero.
While appreciating seasonal traders that took advantage of the two markets to display and sell their wares, products, foodstuffs and other items, Oresanya called on others to move to either of the two Boots Sales Markets, as government would only allow sales in authorised places.
"We will not take it lightly with any seasonal traders found in all these unauthorized open places such as roadsides, verges and medians. They are not meant for trading as any one of them caught will be treated as environmental offenders", he said.
The Commissioner urged traders to comport themselves in an orderly manner to justify government's decision to introduce the unconventional Car Boot Sales Markets, calling on the general public to patronise them so that the aims of the market would be achieved.
The markets at the two venues would end on the eve of the New Year and reopen again in the two venues and other proposed venues in other major cities of the state during next year's festive periods.
Rotimi Oduniyi,
Press Officer, Ministry of Environment
Editor, OGIS,
Ministry of Information & Strategy, Ogun State.
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