Speaking in an interview Bello said the commission would assist the country generate more revenue within the confines of available laws.
Bello said: “The task is challenging. We all know the situation that Nigeria is, or even globally when you look at contemporary African countries like South Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Egypt, all the economic issues that are facing including Nigeria,”
“We had the COVID-19, we had a recession, we now have the war with Ukraine, which has affected many countries and revenues are down all over.
“So our task, as revenue mobilisation is how we can assist the President, to get more revenue for the federation and block leakages.
“Looking at the constitutional responsibility of the commission, which of course are, monitoring of accruals to federation account and disbursement, and also monetisation, taking care of the salaries of political office holders, and judicial officers, as enshrined in the constitution that had not been reviewed since 2008. And I think there is agitation for that.
“And also, from time to time, come up with a new revenue allocation formula, which the commission successfully did, sometimes I think, in February this year, and we have submitted our report to President.
“What he stated at that time was that he was waiting to see what the national assembly will do in terms of looking at the concurrent list and exclusive list and constitutional amendment.
Those present at the event include Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation; Ibrahim Gambari, chief of staff to the president, Babagana Monguno, national security adviser; Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture; Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, among others.
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