By Stanley Onyekwere
The Director, FCT Department of Outdoor Advertisement and Signage (DOAS), Babagana Adam has bemoaned inability to maximally generate and channel all revenues to government coffers as a result of the illegal activities of the some cabals, thereby frustrating reinvigorated efforts to boost the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) profile of the FCT.
Adam, who revealed to Journalists in Abuja, recently, while highlighting the setbacks the FCT administration has endured due to the situation, however, vowed to fight them till the end, to ensure the right things are done.
He said: “Some people have turned revenue collection into their inheritance and dynasty. There are cabals that are frustrating DOAS efforts to generate more revenue for the administration.
“They are handing over the right of generating revenue to their families and cronies. I received a letter yesterday from the wife of a late cabal that has been feasting on the sweats of Abuja residents collecting illegal adverts.
“There’s a construction company that is one of the first three in Abuja that has been fraternising with this family. While that company pays nothing less than N40 million on mobile Advertisement, this money has never been remitted in total for Abuja Municipal Area Council for the past three years, and I have been running a battle at the risk of my life and the lives of some of my colleagues that were attacked and some of you journalists.
“That contractor was given a target of N30 million and I discovered in 2019 or in 2020, the person only reluctantly remitted N11 million naira out of the N30 million. Where is the balance for the year of N19 million.
“Secondly, there is a company I fought from head to toe, may be that is why some of them gave up and left. Some of you will remember the Abuja Municipal Trade and Investment, that company is a dynasty and a clug of progress on AMAC and the FCT”.
“I like pledging, till I leave DOAS or out of government responsibilities, I and my colleagues, if my colleagues like, I will fight them to the last drop of my blood to see that the right things are done and the right money goes into government coffers, then I will surrender”.
