Kwara saves N3.9bn on consultancy fees

The Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) has said it has saved the government N3.9 billion in the last three years that would have gone into consultancies that was the practice of the past management. It said the savings were being ploughed back to the public treasury for investment and development projects in the state. […]

The Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) has said it has saved the government N3.9 billion in the last three years that would have gone into consultancies that was the practice of the past management.

It said the savings were being ploughed back to the public treasury for investment and development projects in the state.

The head, Corporate Affairs of KWIRS, Titilayomi Ogunwale, disclosed this while reacting to alleged mismanagement of funds by the service.

Ogunwale said that while the service still lawfully engaged consultancy firms “like all revenue agencies in the world, it is proud to have ended the era of bogus and often opaque consultancy fees of the past.

“Within the past three years alone, the KW-IRS has saved taxpayers a humongous N3.9 billion in what could have gone to consultancies of all kinds if the former platforms had been retained.”

Ogunwale, who described the allegation as political propaganda, said KWIRS would not be distracted from its core mandate, and called on Kwarans to continue to support it in the quest to improve the state.