Kwara Revenue Agency Saves N3.9bn From Consultancy

Kwara Internal Revenue Service (KW-IRS) has saved taxpayers the sum of N3.9 billion in what could have gone to consultancies of all kinds if the platforms under the former administration had been retained.

It said that savings from what was paid as consultancy before were now ploughed back to the public treasury for investment and development projects.

The head of Corporate Affairs of KW-IRS, Titilayomi Ogunwale, made these disclosures in a statement in Ilorin, the state capital yesterday.

“It is this transparency and patriotic act of the present management that are being twisted by the detractors who are not used to such culture.

“The executive chairman and management team of KW-IRS have made corporate governance and due diligence their watchwords, and will continue to enforce the doctrine to the letter in public interest.

“This possibly explains the relentless attacks on the government and KW-IRS. We are not deterred,” Ogunwale added.

While explaining that the agency was aware of the vast network of conspiracies to sully its image through propaganda and false equivalence as political campaigns begin, Ogunwale said the agency would remain true to its commitments to raise the bar in its service to the people of the state without compromising the law or the agency’s ethics.