By Taban Tom Henry
The Eastern Equatoria State governor Louis Lobong Lojore has on Tuesday directed the newly appointed county commissioners to improve revenue collections.
While presiding over the swearing in ceremony of the newly appointed county commissioners, Lobong directed the officials to improve on revenue collection across their counties.
the Governor mentioned that counties, Payams and bomas were endorsed because they are able to raise funds to sustain themselves.
“Improve revenue collections in your county, people will say money did not come but the money are with them with the people, when the people were applying for a county, payams or the boma they always said and one of the criteria is that our payam is capable of raising the funds to sustain itself.”
In our counties it said to be that there are a lot of resources that is the reason why that county and the state was approve because they are capable of managing themselves they can manage to collect money, we said before that we have natural resources like forest and agriculture their people who are supposed to pay taxes now we are eying to Juba and the counties are eying to the state so you must go and sit to design on how to improve your revenue collections, now oil money is no more,” he added.
The Eastern Equatoria State governor tells the newly appointed officials to enlighten the public at the grassroots to embark on agriculture to tackle the issues of the high exchange rate of the US Dollars.
He further advises cattle keepers to make use of their livestock improve production in order to produce enough milk.
“The issue of the dollar that people are crying, dollar will never come down against our pounds if we don’t produce, if we don’t practice agriculture the dollar will continue going high.”
It is when you are task that we need to continue enlightening our people, you are at the grassroot with the people. You should encourage people because the medicine of the dollar is agriculture. We should plant what can be enough for ourselves and the one that can be sold and for those who are keeping livestock let us make use of our livestock for commercial purposes not for marriage alone we should sell some of our livestock’s, we must also improve the production of livestock to produce enough milk,” he said.
The speaker made the remark during the swearing in Ceremony of three commissioners and the deputy chairperson for insurance regulatory commission on Tuesday.