The Kogi Internal Revenue Service has warned illegal revenue collectors to stop their activities or risk arrest.

Sule Enehe, KGIRS’s chairman, gave the warning during an interactive session with journalists in Lokoja.

“The activities of illegal revenue collectors are becoming worrisome in spite of repeated warnings. We are going all out for those illegal revenue collectors across the state. Those involved in this unconstitutional act have to stop or face the full wrath of the law.

“This is because we are aware that some individuals hide under the cover of transport unions to collect certain illegal levies from motorcycle and tricycle operators.

“They usually block the roads in places like Adankolo junction, suya junction near the federal university Lokoja, first 200 housing unit junction, old market among other places within Lokoja Metropolis and the LGAs,” said Mr Enehe.

The KGSIRS chairman mentioned that the KGIRS would continue to block all system leakages to boost revenue generation. According to him, perpetrators of the illegal act will soon be apprehended and prosecuted in accordance with the existing laws of the land.

The chairman maintained that the revenue collection due for Kogi was the statutory function of KGIRS, as spelt out by the law.

”We will show no mercy to those involved in the illegal activities. We will not rest until we rid the state of illegal tax collectors because their actions and activities are already posing a security threat to the state,” he stated.

On implementing the Land Use Charge Law, Mr Enehe said the law would pave the way for better infrastructure, improved public services and a greater future for the people of Kogi.

He said that when fully implemented, it could foster data-driven decision-making and pave the way for developing smart cities and job creation.

The chairman said the service does not want anything to affect the 2025 internally generated revenue target of N39 billion.

He said the state government was doing all it could to provide the desired social amenities such as water, roads, electricity, schools and health care centres.

(NAN)