The Chairman of the Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS), Mrs. Shade Omoniyi, has lamented that despite the huge amount injected into the water sector by Gov AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, the generated revenue does not commensurate.
The revenue boss made this disclosure on Thursday at a meeting with the Commissioner for Water Resources, Hon. Usman Yunusa Lade.
Mrs. Omoniyi said that her agency has done a lot in the area of revenue generation, adding that many things still needed to be done to retrieve the huge debt the state is being owed in providing water to the populace.
She appealed to the Ministry to synergize with the state revenue agency to achieve the set objectives of the revenue target for the state.
Lade, for his part, opined that revenue generation is crucial for the state government to be able to carry out its enormous responsibilities of meeting the yearnings and aspirations of the people, stressing that federal allocation is grossly becoming inadequate.
He added that the state government will consider other alternative means of using solar energy, to power some of its Waterworks to alleviate incessant power outages disrupting water supply and operations.
Lade disclosed that the state government is considering the possibility of designing a template to regulate the indiscriminate drilling of boreholes across the state, which pose some dangers on the environment, pointing out that with regular water supply, people will be willing to pay for the service.