BREAKING: Nine Top Firs Officials Arrested

Nine senior officials of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) are currently in detention over alleged multi-billion naira fraud.
The officials, who are being detained by the anti-graft agency (EFCC) in Abuja, include the Director of Finance and Accounts (DFA) of the FIRS, Mohammed Auta.
Apart from Mr Auta, another director of the agency, Peter Hena, is also alleged to be involved in the scandal.
Mr Hena, the Coordinating Director, Support Services Group of the FIRS, is currently out of Nigeria and will be arrested as soon as he returns to the country, EFCC sources told this newspaper.
A top official of the FIRS, however, said Mr Hena is on official medical leave outside the country and did not flee.


Mr Hena is believed to be one of the closest officials to the FIRS chairman, Babatunde Fowler.
Details of the scandal are still sketchy as at the time of this report. However, Messrs Auta and Hena are being investigated for allegedly diverting about N6 billion tax funds that should have gone to the Nigerian government, anti-corruption officials said.
Our reporter learnt that most of the other affected officials are from the finance and account department of the FIRS.
All the officials have been in the EFCC detention since April 1.
PREMIUM TIMES learnt the EFCC is closing in on several other senior officials of the revenue collection service in a widening investigation to uncover other fraudulent activities involving several billions of government tax revenues.
When contacted on the detention, the EFCC spokesperson, Orilade Tony, said he had not been briefed on the matter. He said any such detention would be at the EFCC office in Wuse 2, Abuja. He asked to be given more time to get more details on the detention.
The FIRS is saddled with collecting taxes and revenues of the federal government.
The agency under Mr Fowler has seen its revenue generation improve, setting new records. The agency said it collected about N5.32 trillion as revenue in 2018, the highest in Nigeria’s history.

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You Must Arrest Tinubu (Baba Oju'go)...

Next level, after flower left

Lmao. The destruction of Tinubu's internal machinery

Already?

Tinubu is going down with his boys. Shame

Corruption is what tinubu dines with

God Bless Buhari, I am certainly voting this man for another Tenure

This is too much

Waiting for more clarifications/authentication cos so far only independent carry this news

healthserve:
Lmao. The destruction of Tinubu's internal machinery

The 2 names given so far are:


The officials, who are being detained by the anti-graft agency (EFCC) in Abuja, include the Director of Finance and Accounts (DFA) of the FIRS, Mohammed Auta.

Apart from Mr Auta, another director of the agency, Peter Hena, is also alleged to be involved in the scandal.


Which of them is a Tinubu boy?

Commentor:


The 2 names given so far are:


The officials, who are being detained by the anti-graft agency (EFCC) in Abuja, include the Director of Finance and Accounts (DFA) of the FIRS, Mohammed Auta.

Apart from Mr Auta, another director of the agency, Peter Hena, is also alleged to be involved in the scandal.


Which of them is a Tinubu boy?

See consolation

Lol

Commentor:


The 2 names given so far are:


The officials, who are being detained by the anti-graft agency (EFCC) in Abuja, include the Director of Finance and Accounts (DFA) of the FIRS, Mohammed Auta.

Apart from Mr Auta, another director of the agency, Peter Hena, is also alleged to be involved in the scandal.


Which of them is a Tinubu boy?

Naive southener.
When will you guys have sense for goodness sakes

All parties loyal to any sitting chair is a boy to he that sits on the chair. Grow some grey mata

EFCC will soon arrest Tunde Fowler soon

What if there was fraud?
Are you saying you trust those people managing Nigerian resources?
Please make efforts to see beyond Tinubu machinery. Do you even know if it was Tinubu that caused the investigation in the first place?

healthserve:
Lmao. The destruction of Tinubu's internal machinery

healthserve:



Naive southener.
When will you guys have sense for goodness sakes

All parties loyal to any sitting chair is a boy to he that sits on the chair. Grow some grey mata

Shut up.

Many of these people are career FIRS workers, I'm assuming Tinubu or Fowler picked them.

pedel:
What if there was fraud?
Are you saying you trust those people managing Nigerian resources?
Please make efforts to see beyond Tinubu machinery. Do you even know if it was Tinubu that caused the investigation in the first place?

Thats the issue. In democratically run isntituitions illegal enquiries are the aftermath of either performance audits, inquiry into dealings but shouldn't emenated from the executive. With everything coming off as an executive " fiat ", no misdeeds justifies the process.

Its an in independent justice system in the country and an overzealous executive whose actions are blinded by backroom dealings and unintelligent elites


Yes people should be tried and charged for corruption, yes, but not because an invincible hand is the one dictating the directives of the justice system. It implies the justice system is sick and under control


I repeat people should be tried and charged for corruption, but not because an order is coming from somewhere.


No matter how corrupt such a person is, its a manhunt and its an extremely dangerous antecedent because every territorial lord can implement the same gestapo operations to have their enemies brought them

So this is archetype of an antagonist, bitter, overzealous, hateful, vindictive system disguised as patriotic

Cc Wunmi590 SarkinYarki Racoon

Good one..

Tunde Fowler to be arrested before January

Next Level Onslaught against the omoluabis has began

Hausa-fulani hegemony will destroy this nation
Not only dismantling the our brethren from the other divide but now arresting.

Funny enough this story is from April this year.

They are passing them off as breaking news for sensation.

They thought they will loot our collective taxes and use it to fund Okpolo eyes election but they have failed ..Daddy Buhari we are solidly behind U...Our sweet darling zaddy Buhari we love U keep catching Fowler boys like fowl

Tinubu will soon learn that that his bullion van stunt is being kept somewhere safe till he makes any noise or pushes his shady presidential ambition any further.
Then he would be reminded,as we all knew,and shouted,but were conveniently ignored till the bullion van served it's electoral purpose;that ferrying cash loads for one's personal use,is money laundering and has appropriate,harsh legal sanctions.
Let him say pim against the government.

Commentor:
Funny enough this story is from April this year.

They are passing them off as breaking news for sensation.

We are just Pleased with our Daddy Buhari no matter what

Osagyefo98:




See consolation

Lol

This your reply is quite hilarious