APSON visits TSBIRS, seeks collaboration for effective service delivery
Jethro Yerga, Jalingo
The Taraba State Chapter of Association of Private School Owners of Nigeria APSON, has paid a courtesy call on the Taraba State Board of Internal Revenue to seek partnership with the board in order to enhance effective service delivery and mutual working relationship
The chairman of the association, Mr Sylvester Acha, who led the delegation into the Conference Hall of the board, said the association was at the board to congratulate the chairman of the board Gen. Jeremiah Faransa (Rtd) for assuming the office and to seek for cordial working relationship since they are all stakeholders in the business of generating Internal Revenue for the state
The APSON boss stressed that working cordially with the board would go a long way to help the two parties to live up to their various responsibilities towards serving the state in a most beneficial way, especially that issues that always emanate from generating internal revenue from schools and provocation of their members would easily and fairly be tackled
“We are here today to congratulate you on assumption of your new office and to seek for a strong partnership and collaboration especially that all of us are stakeholders in the business of generating internal revenue for the government of our state
“This is more so that APSON does not work in isolation with the government. We complement what the government does by working harmoniously with its educational policies. We go on same extra-curricular policies even as the government provides an enabling environment for us to operate
“It will also interest you to know sir, that we also assumed office recently as you did and we felt there was every reason we should come over to identify ourselves with you with a view to exploring various ways of collaboration to enable us serve our state better”. The chairman added.
He expressed confidence in the capacity and leadership dexterity of Gen Faransa to lift the board to a greater height, lauding the significant marks he had made at the board withing few days in the office
Mr Sylvester Acha, equally lauded the Governor of Taraba State, Dr Agbu Kefas for his mind blowing policies in the education sector of the state and for chosen competent hands to man the Board of Internal Revenue and prayed that God should grant them wisdom to justify the confidence reposed in them
Responding, the chairman, Taraba State Board of Internal Revenue Service, Gen Jeremiah Faransa and other members of the board in seperate speeches, stressed the need for Private Schools to always pay their various taxes, emphasising that it was only when they keep the social contract that they would hold their government accountable
Gen Faransa who described the visit as timely, noted that Taraba State has now gotten a transformative and visionary leader who is capable and willing to transform the fortune of the state and so it was no longer business as usual.
He reminded APCON to always remember that they have an obligation to the government, adding that the board was determined to embrace all stakeholders in the business of generating internal revenue for the state to enable the state government operates effectively
The chairman expressed dismay over unwholesome activities that went on in the business of revenue generation in the state previously, but reassured the association that, with the new persons carefully selected by the governor, who have decided to forfeit all their pleasures just to serve the state, everything would soon be properly fixed
The chairman further encouraged APCON to upgrade their operations and to work harder and affiliate with tertiary institutions across the country to make tertiary education easily accessible by their graduating students of the state
