Kano asks FG to increase revenue allocation for LGAs

The Kano State Government has called on the Federal Government to implement an upward review of the revenue allocation formula to the local government areas to enable them to perform their responsibilities better.

The state Commissioner for Local Government, Murtala Garo, stated this at a two-day sensitisation on data gathering and management for local government officials which was held in the state on Friday and was organised by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission.

According to Garo, the Federal Government currently gets 52 per cent in the revenue allocation formula, gives states 22 per cent, while the 774 LGAs share about 20.6 per cent, which is little, considering the responsibilities of the local governments.

In his remark, the team leader of RMAFC, who is also a Federal Commissioner representing Niger State, Ibrahim Bagudu, said the commission organised the exercise to chart ways on how state and local governments could create and maintain a functional data bank.

Bagudu said that the programme would help the government to create and maintain a data bank for purpose of timely record keeping that would enable the state render a credible data to the RMAFC.