Defaulting Revenue Generating MDAs Will Be Severely Punished – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has come out to urge Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to focus on meeting their targets of generating revenues for the government.

He recently revealed that failure to do so will definitely attract a sanction, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, relevant agencies should ensure the realisation of Nigeria’s crude oil production and export targets henceforth, else, heads of defaulting agencies will be punished.

He added that Nigerians and the business community should also learn to fulfil their tax obligations promptly.

His words, “We are intensifying our domestic revenue mobilisation efforts so that we can have adequate resources to fund the 2021 Budget.”

“Revenue generating agencies and all MDAs must work very hard to achieve their revenue targets, control their cost-to-revenue ratios, as well as ensure prompt and full remittance of revenue collections.”

“Relevant agencies are to ensure the realisation of our crude oil production and export targets. Heads of defaulting Agencies are hereby warned that they will be severely sanctioned.”

“I also appeal to our fellow citizens and the business community to fulfil their tax obligations promptly.”

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Muhammadu Buhari GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician currently serving as the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and previously served as the nation’s head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d’état. The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government.

He unsuccessfully ran for the office of president of Nigeria in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 general elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 general elections. Buhari won the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This marked the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in a general election. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015. In February 2019, Buhari was re-elected President, defeating his closest rival Atiku Abubakar by over 3 million votes.

Buhari has stated that he takes responsibility for anything over which he presided during his military rule, and that he cannot change the past. He has described himself as a “converted democrat”.

Muhammadu Buhari was born to a Fulani family on 17 December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Hardo Adamu, a Fulani chief, and mother Zulaihat. He is the twenty-third child of his father. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father died when he was about four years old.