The Government of His Excellency President Adama Barrow is doing well in many sectors and this we should recognize just as we will point our long fingers to issues needing more effort. The Gambia Revenue Authority deserves our close respect.
The news that The Gambia Revenue Authority(GRA) has in four months netted close to 5 billion dalasi is a show of efficient revenue collection. The GRA under the leadership of our wise and hardworking brother Yankuba Darboe and his team, should be commended. He has cultivated efficiency at the GRA and under Yanks leadership, Gambian revenue mobilization is getting more brilliant.
Gone are the days when the revenue collectors were more known for not collecting or collecting and not accounting for it. Over the past seven years, Yanks has led the GRA as Commissioner General with calculated efficiency and on the spot delivery to the people of our Republic. GRA has earned institutional and corporate responsibility under his calm watch.
We commend Yanks and his team. This is what our Republic needs: delivery; give GRA a target to collect and they will surpass it by leaps and bounds.
As they play their role of collecting money to run our public services, those who spend should also do their best to ensure that money is spent wisely and usefully. We cannot build our Republic on the format of efficient revenue mobilization by GRA and poor expenditure by spending agencies.
Despite the corona pandemic and its painful impact on business and therefore revenue collection, the GRA has seen a nominal growth in its collection of 7 per cent. This is great. Moreover, GRA has embarked on using cutting edge technology to defray leakages and ensure the spotless collection of revenue.
If you want to see a working Government institution where the watch word is delivered, please go to GRA. By all means, good standards have been set there.
When GRA gathers and others scatter then the pile will never be high enough! We must pay our taxes! In time! Always!
Well done GRA!