The Chairman, Mubi North Local Government in Adamawa, Alhaji Musa Bello on Monday raised an alarm that he met only N1,500 in the Local Government account and also inherited a liability of over N200 million on his resumption to office.
Bello while interacting with newsmen said “I met only N1,500 in the council’s account and a liability of over N200 million, while the Internally Generated Revenue of the council, then, was N150,000 weekly’’.
The council Boss disclosed that he had to use his experience as a former councillor in the local government to mobilise the business community to pay appropriate taxes, to shore up the council’s internal revenue.
Bello during the interaction that it was difficult paying salaries that time because the council was facing a drastic revenue shortfall.
Listing some of the projects executed by his administration which include evacuation of drainage to avert flooding and construction of six feeder roads, 13 boreholes and rehabilitated 104 others using internally generated revenue, Bello said “We set up a committee and were able to boost the local revenue, which we use in executing a lot of projects within the short period we assumed office
According to him, activities were picking up after the insurgency which affected social and economic activities in the local government as residents are waiting for government to carry out rehabilitation and reconstruction programmes, as pledged by the Presidential Committee on North East.
