Plateau targets N5bn monthly from new land administration

The Plateau State government has reaffirmed its commitment to generating over N5 billion monthly Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), through the implementation of the Land Administration signed into law by Governor Simon Bako Lalong.
He explained that if all things works out well, the state will be poised to enhance all the untapped areas to increase its revenue drive.
This was the submission of the chairman of the Plateau State Internal Revenue Service (PSIRS), Dashe Arlat, at the stakeholders’ engagement forum of the Plateau State Geographic and Information Services Law and Land Use Charges Law With Private Sector Group, held in collaboration with GIZ.
He said anything land-related is a very critical aspect of production and the economy because without land nothing can be done.
Arlat said Gov. Lalong has been working on how best to harness all the potentials in land sector, by having the land law established, so that all those who benefit from land use in the state can do the needful.
He said if anything related to Land Use Act is gotten correctly, every other thing would fall into place, since land drives every other sector.
In his remarks, the Commissioner Plateau State Ministry of Lands, Survey and Town Planning, Yakubu Datti, urged the business community to cooperate with the government while saving huge resources through timely payment of their Property and Land Use Charge.
“In Plateau State, because land-based revenue has remained hugely untapped and the returns from the sector in dire need of a turnaround, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Simon Bako Lalong, had on the 14th July, 2021, in a bid to turn the land sector around, assented to the Plateau State Property and Land Use Charge Law 2021 and the Plateau State Geographic and Information Services (PLAGIS) Law 2021 – two critical laws passed by the Plateau State House of Assembly to aid revenue collections from land administration.
“It is for this and other reasons that the management of the ministry deemed it necessary to organise this stakeholders’ engagement in order to bring heads of government Ministries, Agencies, Departments, development partners and members of the business community, especially the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in the state who are clients of the ministry under one roof, to present these laws, appreciate their implications on land administration and to chart a way forward for the growth and development of the state through increased revenue generation from the collective collaboration of all critical stakeholders.”
Datti said the 50% waiver granted Small and Medium Scale Enterprises by the governor on all land-based transactions with the ministry since inception of his administration is a testimony of his love for the business community.