The Enugu State Board of Internal Generated Revenue Service (ESIRS) has bagged a double award at the Nigeria Bureau of Public Service Reform Conference 2024 held at NICON LUXURY hotel in Abuja. The awards recognize ESIRS’s disruption innovations, reforms, and digitalization of Enugu State tax policies, implementations, and practices, which have improved the state’s internal generated revenue and plugged leakages.
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According to the Director General of BPSR, Mr. Dasuki Arabi, the Bureau of Public Service Reforms is the lead agency established in 2004 to drive integrated reform initiatives, implementation, coordination, and harmonization. The Bureau introduced the Institutional Self-Assessment Tool (SAT) to support government transformation efforts. Following the President’s directive to deploy SAT in all federal and state ministries and agencies, ESIRS exceeded expectations in all essential areas, particularly ICT.
Mr. Arabi noted that ESIRS’s performance was rated 70% after a thorough self-assessment, validation, and in-depth analysis of its operations, processes, and systems. Consequently, ESIRS emerged as the “Best State Revenue Agency in ICT Integration” and won the “Nigeria Govtec Public Service Award of Year 2024.”
The Chairman of the Board of Internal Generated Revenue, Mr. Ekene Nnamani, was also honored with an award as a “Trailblazer” of state revenue in Nigeria. In his acceptance speech, Mr. Nnamani attributed the digitalization of revenue collection in Enugu State to the disruptive agenda of Governor Barr Peter Ndubuisi Mbah.
“I would like to thank your team for finding us worthy and for championing the reforms that are currently going on in the public service,” Mr. Nnamani said. “I must say that your organization is doing wonderfully well and you need to be commended. The BPSR is indeed achieving this significant milestone for the good of this nation.”
The event was attended by stakeholders, captains of industries, and prominent individuals from government and private sectors.