₦airaland Forum

ochejoseph: He has. 12 brand New Universities to his Credit

ochejoseph: Our roads are getting better key roads are been Fixed

stebell: @ OP, yu just made ma nite pleasurable. I kinda wanda between yu and Sincere 9gerian, who is doing it beta. The more haters abuse/insult GEJ, de more yu peeps are churning out laudable stuff achieved by GEJ and his Fresh Air Crew. Keep it up.
Long Live South South
Long Live GEJ
Long Live #Team Fresh Air#
Long Naija

Dpeacemaker101: You know one thing I like about GEJ, he doesn't allow all these talks get to him. He is committed to his job and focused in reforming HIS BANK ACCOUNT

olowodaran: young man it is not by force to comment if you don't know anything, there were massive transformation during agagu administration ranging from bore holes to road construction, he is beta dan late adefarati who ruled before him and mimiko who ruled after him and still ruling, his wife funke agagu also help by donating to orphanages, money, rice, g.Oil etc. Agagu is good. Am from ondo state and the man did well. R.I.P agagu

bestman09: Atiku is really desperate!! He wants to be president of Federal Republic of Nigeria BY FORCE, whether God wants him to rule or not, whether the people wants or not. Hope he doesnt die in frustration!

xplizit: I'll advise her to launch another brand of Aboniki, black soap or wrapped amala. This aint her playing field

Bigcake: Ur name alone shows dat u r a goat. Go to d creeks n see tings for urself. Have u ever come accross d word ''enviromental degradation''?

doctokwus: I feel 2 things might av happened here1) d ogun internal revenue guys wud,as is typical of any employee in nigeria working for any kind of govt authority,av gone in wt an overbearing attitude(2)d church staff workers wud av felt d whole thing was personal,d target dey feel being 2 tarnish d name of oyedepo;hence dey wud av also acted in an inappropriate& overzealous manner,2 ward off d tax guys.At d end both sides I feel were @fault,both sides need to go back to d drawing board& restrategize because this is just d prologue,d main act wud follow anytime soon,unless one side decides to back down

The Living Faith Church Worldwide, known as Winners Chapel, is in trouble with the Ogun State Government, following an accusation of tax evasion and alleged violent attack on officials of the state government who were at the church premises to effect the payment of outstanding taxes. The outstanding taxes cover six years according to Ogun officials.

The church is owned by one of Nigeria’s most influential and controversial cleric, David Oyedepo, who is also considered one of the richest clerics globally and who through hus church owns three private jets.

The taxes are allegedly owed by a school, Kingdom Heritage Nursery School, belonging to the church. The school, a private school, is located within the church’s headquarters in Ota.

The Ogun State Government addressing a press conference on Friday showed a video to journalists in which the tax officers were seen being assaulted and detained for three hours by staff of the school.

The chairman of the Ogun State Internal Revenue Service, Jide Odubanjo, explained that the service has the statutory power to access and inspect financial records in the premises of any business located within the state. He added that the recent inspection was in line with the state’s drive to ensure compliance with extant tax laws and enforcement initiatives undertaken daily across the state.

He said that it was in view of these that tax officials visited the school on Thursday, after several reminders to offset the debt were ignored by the authorities.

Mr. Odubanjo expressed shock at the behaviour of some staff of the school which led to the assault of the officials.

“As a result of this incident, an officer of the Ogun State Internal Revenue Service is currently hospitalised in Ilaro while others with minor injuries have been treated and discharged. Additionally, a number of assets belonging to (the) Service were damaged beyond repair,” Mr. Odubanjo said.

He noted that it was the intervention of the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, of Onipanu in Ota Division that led to the release of the allegedly detained tax collector by the school and church staff.

The chairman, accompanied by three commissioners in the state during the press conference, said a formal complaint has been lodged with the police, stressing that government would not tolerate any form of violence against any of its officers or agent in the lawful discharge of their duties. He added that the state government would bring criminal and civil charges against all the perpetrators of the incident and ensure that they face the full wrath of the law.

“We condemn in the strongest terms any act of violence perpetrated against officers in the discharge of their legitimate duties. It is shocking and disheartening to see uniformed officers of OGIRS being violently assaulted. We view it as the height of irresponsibility and lawlessness for any person or group of persons to assault government officials who are performing their lawful duties,” he said.

The school authorities as well as the church are yet to react to the tax and violence claims of the Ogun government while the police said they are already investigating the attack.

“We are aware of the assault on officials of Ogun state Internal Revenue Service. The case was reported at Onipanu police station in Ota and we are going to investigate the matter thoroughly,” the Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, told PREMIUM TIMES.

ckkris: To stop EFCC from investigating the numerous petitions against them is the major reason they r6 are forcing the President to acknowledge them as special. Not that they have any contributions to enhance Jona's widespread transformations. They MUST beg for mercy & forgiveness.