The Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory has urged local businesses to pay relevant taxes to enable the council boost infrastructure in the area.
Chairman of the council, Nuhu Daniel Kwali, made the call when he summoned management and officials of companies and firms located in the area for a meeting at the council.
‘We want to ensure that there is that synergy between the council and companies and other firms sited here in Kwali so that our youths will be engage through job creation and also improve our IGR as we must not rely on monthly allocation alone,’he said.
He said the council desire to demand for payment of revenue from the companies, industries and other firms cited in the area was to ease the over-reliance of the council on monthly allocations from the government.
He said the council did not call to demand payment of revenue alone, but to also foster cordial relationship between the council and the companies for citing their industries in the council.
Kwali said the location of companies and other industries will better the lives of residents of the council, through job creation and employment of some graduates and non-graduates into various offices.
The Chairman, however, urged the companies to ensure they pay their revenue directly to the council pulse not to individuals.
Kwali, while responding to some challenges highlighted by the companies management at the meeting, such as epileptic power supply, security challenge and lack of portable water, he assured that the council would make every efforts to ensure there is improvement in power supply in the area.
He said though, the issue of power supply is a general challenge facing every parts of the country, but assured that the council has procured additional transformers to be installed at various locations within the council to boost electricity.
‘And on the issue of water supply, the council will be collaborating with the FCT administration in order to see how the dam we have here in Kwali will looked into by the minister so that we can now see how we can channel the water to various companies in Kwali,’he said.