By Peter Egwuatu
GLOBAL Mckens Lim  ited, an international  solutions outfit has called on the Federal, States and Local Governments to embrace its newly articulated Geospatial technologies that would help them enhance their revenue generation.

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The company disclosed that its Geographical Information System(GIS) technology helps to build data required by all the tiers of government including private organisations to enhance their revenue profile and meet their specific need through proper planning.

Speaking to newsmen in Lagos weekend, Mr. Kenneth Igben, Vice President, GIS Technology of Global Mckens Limited, said, “ Our Property Appraisal System modernizes the tax appraisal operations and advance intelligibility in the taxation arrangement, thereby facilitating improvement in revenue generation. The core requirement of the system is the complete documentation of information that will facilitate well-organised administration and tax collection.

“The principal goals of this system are the automation of property enumeration and tax records, systemic mapping of all properties and related-entities such as roads/streets. Other property and road conditions, which helps to facilitate instantaneous service improvements and property reassessment.

“Our Integrated Map Control System (IMCS) allows for an efficient enumeration process that classifies properties, geographically track tax defaulters, tax payments and rationalize tax rates.

“We conduct an organised physical property enumeration and surveys using our ‘fishnet’ section grid management system and Global Positioning System (GPS) to create property location maps. Host internet Map sites for public viewing of property information.”

Mr.Chukwuemeka Mpamugo, Vice President, Marketing Operations of Global Mckens, while explaining the need for governments and other private organisations to patronise its assets and resource inventory, stressed that Global Mckens provides high quality and affordable expert GIS, digital and interactive mapping solutions to government, companies, oganisations and individuals that need geospatial technologies to meet their planning and management needs.

According to him, “ We are a company, big on experience with very competitive rates and highly qualified and tested world class professional GIS staff . Some of our GIS Technology solutions include:  Property Enumeration and Tax Collection System, Utility Route Design and Management System, Law Enforcement Crime Pattern Monitoring Systemamongst others.We have come up with enumeration process to enable government visualize tax payment methodology and track payment.

Continuing, he said, “ We develop and deploy a Relational Database Management System (RDMS) of property and tax records using industry-tested methodologies to manage property and tax records. Connect property maps with tax records to enable spatial view of information and well segregated property assessment.

Apart from revenue generation, he explained that their GIS solution can also provide the foundation data to plan, to build roads and even prevent crime. “you need to find out where more people are living for developmental purposes. The project pays for itself in the first year of usage and made money for them. Other usefulness of our data base is in education, where governments need to know where to build more schools by assessing the population and buildings in a particular area.”