Sokoto Gets World Bank Awards Of Excellence

Sokoto State government has received three awards of excellence from the World Bank sequel to the diligent implementation of World Bank-assisted States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability Project, SFTAS.

The acting commissioner for finance in the state, Dr Mohammed Inname, disclosed that the state was able to perform wonderfully well in all the three categories.

Inname added that one of the awards was on domestic resource mobilisation or domestic revenues mobilisation.

He said, “We have rebranded and restructured the state Internal Revenue Board Service with an executive chairman and they were given full autonomy to mobilise and generate revenues.

“We have been doing excellently well from as low as N200million monthly and we have consistently increased to about N900 million in October this year.

“The second award was Debt Sustainability and we have performed very well in this direction. That means we are able to pay our obligations monthly or on whatever terms that have been agreed upon.”