{"id":48827,"date":"2016-04-27T08:48:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T07:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=48827"},"modified":"2016-04-27T09:10:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T08:10:50","slug":"firs-boss-fowler-fowler-stealing-govt-petitioners-tell-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/firs-boss-fowler-fowler-stealing-govt-petitioners-tell-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRS boss, Fowler is stealing from Govt, petitioners tell Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"messagecontent\">\n<div class=\"leftcol\">\n<div id=\"messagebody\">\n<div class=\"message-htmlpart\">\n<div class=\"rcmBody\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Few months after President Muhammadu Buhari made\u00a0 Babatunde Fowler, chairman of the Federal\u00a0 Inland Revenue Service(FIRS), he is being accused of sharp practices.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">.A petition to the president Muhammadu Buhari,by aggrieved staff accused him of sundry violations of the Inland Revenue Act.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fowler who held sway as\u00a0 Lagos Inland Revenue Service boss for a long time,\u00a0 was is a lackey and candidate of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fowler was accused of serially breaching the 2007 FIRS Establishment Act, NewsdiaryOnline reports.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to the petitioners,the revenue boss did not waste time in giving an inkling to what he had in mind short changing the federal government in revenue collection.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAs soon as he was confirmed he brought in his lieutenants that will assist him in looting funds for personal use such as 1. Faramade Ogunsunya (his director finance in Lagos) 2. Adebowale Shonekan, 3. Biodun Aina (his SA in Lagos). This is the same persons he used as fronts when he was in Lagos State Internal Revenue\u201d the petitioners alleged.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They further alleged that \u201cfraudulent\u00a0 contract, where consultants are engaged to collect taxes who are then paid a per cent age of collection (2%). The 2% is then shared amongst him and others.\u201d<br \/>\nEngaging\u00a0 consultants to carry out duties of assessing and collecting tax or routine responsibilities of tax officials violates\u00a0 section 12 (4) the FIRS firs Act, 2007, the petitioners allege.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One Biodun Aina is fingered as the major pipeline the FIRS chairman uses to siphon funds illegally.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Documents from that count department show Aina\u2019s culpability.<br \/>\n\u201cMost of the vouchers are done and paid in Aina\u2019s name on behalf of fowler. The minimum amount collected for fowler\u2019s personal trips to Lagos is N4m\u201d a source\u00a0 said<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fowler was similarly accused of using fronts to quarterly fleece the government of a whopping N80m by supplying bogus fuel to FIRS vehicles in field offices at above the litre price.<br \/>\n\u201cThis amount will be paid even when all the cars did not consume fuel in the quarter\u201d said a source in the agency .<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The petitioners therefore,urged the president to Investigate the multiple invoicing of payments in the name of Biodun Aina<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Documents also show that Fowler has been on a vehicle purchase spree consisting of two\u00a0 jeeps And two sedans.<br \/>\nA national daily recently reported that Fowler had secretly hired 5 directors which is a violation of the federal character principles.<br \/>\nThree of the directors come from the Southwest where Fowler hails from.Wahab Gbadamosi\u00a0 confirmed that they were recruited to assist in the realisation of FIRS 2016 target of N4.9 trillion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few months after President Muhammadu Buhari made\u00a0 Babatunde Fowler, chairman of the Federal\u00a0 Inland Revenue Service(FIRS), he is being accused of sharp practices. .A petition to the president Muhammadu Buhari,by&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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