{"id":68526,"date":"2019-08-19T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=68526"},"modified":"2019-08-19T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:17:09","slug":"firs-pdp-accuses-apc-buhari-presidency-of-complicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/firs-pdp-accuses-apc-buhari-presidency-of-complicity\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRS: PDP Accuses APC, Buhari Presidency of Complicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m-3328519242005336026\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\nThe Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the revelation of variances<br \/>\npointing to the siphoning of trillions of naira, taxpayers\u2019 money<br \/>\ncollected by the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) further confirms<br \/>\nits stance that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Buhari<br \/>\nPresidency is neck-deep in corruption and looting of our common<br \/>\npatrimony.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Party Spokesman, Kola ologbonyian said &#8220;This<br \/>\ndiscovery of variances in the remission of taxes vindicates our concerns<br \/>\nabout underhand dealings and frittering of monies collected as taxes in<br \/>\nthe last four years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The party notes that Nigerians are not deceived by the desperation by<br \/>\nagents of the Buhari Presidency to cover its complicity by seeking a<br \/>\nfall guy in the Executive Chairman of FIRS, Babatunde Fowler.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PDP says that a critical study of the leaked correspondence from<br \/>\nthe Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari, to the FIRS<br \/>\nChairman at the wake of the revelations of financial discrepancies at<br \/>\nFIRS, totally betrays the complicity of the cabal in the Buhari<br \/>\nPresidency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The correspondence also further confirms that our nation and her<br \/>\neconomy have been in the strangulating grips of a corrupt cabal, who has<br \/>\nevidently hijacked the statutory roles and responsibilities of agencies<br \/>\nof government, leading to the crippling of our system in the last four<br \/>\nyears of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s misrule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PDP describes as appalling that the Buhari Presidency has allowed<br \/>\nits cabal a field day to loot our common patrimony, leading to the<br \/>\ncrushing economic hardship in the land, which is now worsening, with the<br \/>\nanti-people ban on FOREX for food by the Buhari administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The stealing of our taxes by APC agents has brought so much anguish to<br \/>\nNigerians, who suffer the brunt of collapsed infrastructure, decay of<br \/>\nsocial amenities and a crippled national economy under President Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PDP therefore urges the National Assembly to come to the rescue by<br \/>\nholding a public inquest into the handling of taxes collected by the<br \/>\nFIRS in the last four years, take urgent steps to recover the stolen<br \/>\nfunds and channel such to projects that have direct bearing on the<br \/>\nwelfare of Nigerians.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\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>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the revelation of variances pointing to the siphoning of trillions of naira, taxpayers\u2019 money collected by the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) further confirms&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":58941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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