By Nkiruka Nnorom

Awka—Chief Willie Obiano, Governor of Anambra State, has revealed that the state has set a monthly revenue target of N2.2 billion for the year 2016 up from N1.4 billion it currently generates.

He stated this at the inaugural Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, Summit organised by the state government in conjunction with Fidelity Bank Plc at Awka, the state capital.

Obiano said his government would deploy, specially modified PoS devices across the state to achieve the set target.

He added that the state would attain the revenue target without increasing taxes and promised to sanitize the revenue collection process by weeding out fraudsters who pose as collection agents to fleece tax payers.

“This year, we intend to move our IGR from N1.4 billion where it is currently to about N2.2 billion monthly and I believe it is doable. We will do this without increasing tax. We will not increase tax but we are going to enhance our method of collection and block the leakages,” he said.