This was made known by the Commissioner for Finance and Chief Economic Adviser, Mr. Dapo Okubadejo, during a revenue meeting with Payment Service Providers, at the Ministry of Finance conference room, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
Okubadejo noted that various financial reforms have been implemented to attract investors, block leakages and fast-track business processes in the State, such as the Billing and Payment Management System (BPMS), digitisation of land acquisition, automated payment processes, Treasury Single Account (TSA), among others.
He added that the pilot agencies where these initiatives were activated, namely the Bureau of Lands and Survey, Internal Revenue Service and Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, have recorded immense success in different perspectives.
Okubadejo stated that to further promote transparency and seamless services, more Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) would be onboarded to these platforms, including the Ministries of Environment, Industry, Trade & Investment, Health, Transportation, and Agriculture.
He said to achieve this feat, rests heavily on ensuring that civil servants played an integral part of the initiatives, as they were the ones who would ensure its sustainability.
Responding on behalf of the other Payment Service Providers, the CEO of ICMA, Mr. Lukman Buari, applauded the government for creating a level playing field for service providers and acknowledged the contributions of workers to the successes achieved in implementing the initiatives thus far, pledging the continued optimal delivery of their targets.
