The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has proposed to spend a total of N4.131 billion on refresh­ments and meal subsidies for its staff in the 2021 fiscal year.

This was even as members of the House Committee on Finance expressed dismay at FIRS for proposing to expend a total of N1, 819,556,000 on contract drivers in 2021.

According to budget doc­uments presented before the James Faleke-led Committee on Finance, and seen by Dai­ly Independent, the service is also proposing the sum of N310 million as security vote for the chairman in its 2021 budget estimates.

The figures which are contained on page 17 un­der the proposed Recurrent Overhead for the Year 2021 of the agency’s budget doc­uments shows that while the sum of N340 million is pro­posed for ‘refreshments and meals’, a whopping sum of N3, 791,456,233 was proposed as ‘meal subsidy’.

However, the total spent on refreshments as a line item in 2020, according to the documents, was N337,320,234.

A closer look at the doc­ument also shows that the concept of meal subsidy as proposed by the service in 2021 is a new introduction to its budget proposal as there was no such thing in 2020.

The agency is also propos­ing to spend another N4.2 billion for staff welfare, fes­tivity, and other unspecified items.

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They are learning from their grand master Jubrin "I will pight kworoption" Al Sudani. If only vulturebbqrillz and other resident zombies can benefit from such huge deals with the looting galore currently going on in the government instead of defecating all over the entire cyberspace. Aisha is managing the Middle Eastern branch of the looting. I pray the UAE will have the decency to return the loot in about 30 years time as the Swiss and other European countries are returning Abacha's own to the country, useless shithole.

I remember during Jonathan time, it was 30 million Naira allocated for feeding daily in the Presidency and 250 Million Naira yearly for the dogs in Aso Rock, we really thought we had seen it all, but Buhari came in to succeed him doing a lot worse, now there's talks of him running for 2023, failure succeeding failure, people will still vote for him no matter what, we don't learn, until we do, things will remain what they are

Nothing shocks me anymore in Nigeria. We have a government that doesn't believe in the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.

See curry??

The former Boss of FIRS and Osinbajo really looted FIRS.

Lol, Nigeria....monkey dey work baboon dey chop...na to de increase VAT every year dey thief am....when money finish, run go China go borrow..

People working under Buhari are so confident in their corrupt activities simply because they know that Oga is doing his own and has given them the green light to do so too.. One of the biggest mistakes a people can ever make politically is to elect as a president, a man whose loyalty is all over the place... Don't be surprised if in the long run it's discovered that most of the so-called contract staffs are from Zinder via Marada in Niger republic.. Folks invited by those in power to come and help them loot down to Nigeria because even those in Aso Rock don't really believe in Nigeria..

its good nah,they want everything to be fresh.

And the corruption continues.They push out Babatunde Fowler only for the new Aboki on the block to step up the pitch of the corruption.God save Nigeria from these looters.