Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Tunde
Fowler, has disclosed that the organisation received more
than 700,000 applications from the recent job advert it placed
for 500 vacancies.
The chairman who said this yesterday in Abuja during a
meeting with the House of Representatives Committee on
Public Petition, noted that, out of the 700,000 applicants who
applied for FIRS job opening, more than 2,000 had first class
degrees in various disciplines and were qualified to be
engaged by the Service.
Fowler made this disclosure while addressing a petition from
some of the applicants, who claimed that they have been
excluded from the employment processes.
He explained that FIRS would recruit only 500 people, noting
that the exercise was designed only to expand the country’s
revenue and to increase manpower for tax revenue collection.
He however assured the applicants that the organisation will
ensure fairness in its recruitment process. "We have secured
waiver and endorsement from the Federal Character
Commission in order to ensure that the right thing is done,"
Fowler said.

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