The Jigawa Government has inaugurated a 10-member committee on the implementation of interim report on the 2016 nationwide monitoring of royalty collections and activities of miners in the state.
A statement on Wednesday in Dutse by Malam Isma’il Ibrahim, the Public Relations Officer, Jigawa Ministry of Finance, reported the Commissioner, Alhaji Umar Namadi, as saying this at the inauguration of the committee.
Namadi while inaugurating the committee, charged the members to discharge their duty with fear of God.
Giving the committee its terms of reference, the commissioner tasked it to liaise with relevant stakeholders to ascertain all legal and illegal artisanal miners in the state, to bring them into the tax network.
Namadi also told the committee to come up with comprehensive data base of all miners operating in the state for effective revenue generation such as Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and others.
Responding, the Chairman of the committee, who is also the Executive Chairman, Board of Internal Revenue, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmed, assured the state government that the members would justify the confidence reposed on them.
The committee has four weeks to complete the assignment.
(NAN)