Hamman Tukur: Ex-RMAFC Boss who Introduced Monetisation Policy is Dead

Hamman Tukur: Ex-RMAFC Boss who Introduced Monetisation
Policy is Dead
The former Chairman of Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal
Commission (RMAFC), Engineer Hamman Tukur who introduced
monetization policy died in Kaduna on Saturday and has been buried
according to Islamic rites.

Appointed by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999, Engr Tukur led
other members of the Commission in recommending and implementing
the monetization policy of remuneration packages for political
office holders in all tiers and arms of government. The policy
drastically minimized public wastage of resources.

Though the Commission also recommended a new Revenue Allocation
Formula that favoured states and local governments, the Federal
Government has nevertheless refused to submit it to the National
Assembly for passage into law for implementation.

Born on January 24th, 1942 in Adamawa State, Engr. Tukur who
attended various schools at home and abroad had a B. Sc in Physics
and a M. Sc in Engineering.

He started his work career at Consolidated Tin Mines, Jos before
moving to the academia as a Lecturer at Kaduna Polytechnic. He was
Head of Department of Electrical/Electronics before he became the
Rector of Kaduna Polytechnic.

From the academia, the Federal Government appointed him the
Managing Director of the defunct National Electric Power Authority,
NEPA; Director-General, Federal Ministry of Mines, Power and Steel
and later Director-General, Federal Ministry of Petroleum
Resources.

Engr. Tukur was a Member, Institute of Strategic Studies, Kuru;
Fellow Nigerian Society of Engineers; Fellow, Yaba College of
Technology and Member, Institute of Electrical Engineers (England).
He was also a recipient of Officer of the Federal Republic
(OFR).

He left marks in the various places he served but it was in the
RMAFC that his impact was most felt across the nation especially in
resolving disputed oil swells among states in the Niger Delta
region and the Commission’s close monitoring of sources of revenue
to the Federation from oil and non-oil sectors resulting in
significant improvement in accruals to the Federation Account.

FOR THE RECORD: TRIBUTE TO HAMMAN TUKUR*
Bail-Out Funds to States Illegal – Hamman Tukur Ex-Chair RMAFC
(2017)
https://economicconfidential.com/2017/10/bail-out-states-illegal-tukur-rmafc/^[1]

NASS members walked out on us when confronted over their jumbo
pay — ex-RMAFC boss, Tukur (2015)
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/188701-nass-members-walked-out-on-us-when-confronted-over-their-jumbo-pay-ex-rmafc-boss-tukur.html^[2]

How Population Affects Revenue Allocation Formula – Hamman Tukur
(2007)
https://economicconfidential.com/2007/04/economic-confidential-27/^[3]

Hamman Tukur and the National Honours (2004)
https://yashuaib.com/2004/01/hamman-tukur-and-the-national-honours/^[4]

By PRNigeria