TUNDE FOWLER'S FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES TEAR LIRS APART

There is a genuine bitterness behind the pose of staff of Lagos State Inland Revenue Service (LIRS) as they are bitter about their boss, Tunde Fowler’s gluttony.

It all started when Lagos State Government increased the salaries of workers in its employ over a year ago, and Fowler failed to jack up that of the agency’s staff. Initially, they thought it was a passing phase, but several months had come, and gone, and their boss has not changed his position.

Inside source told us that LIRS’ staff were patient with Fowler but for some reasons, it seemed their boss was bent on discovering the limit of their patience.

This happened recently when he wrote a memo to Gov. Babatunji Raji Fashola where he claimed that the agency gave each audit staff in its employ N20, 000 (twenty thousand naira) as allowance every month.

The content of the memo was a huge surprise to the staff when later on details of it leaked out to them. And very livid were the over 50 audit staff. Their grouse was that at no time did the agency pay them such amount. What they get every month as allowance was N10, 000 (Ten thousand naira) each.

Generally, the staff’s interpretation of Fowler’s false claim was that he had been shortchanging them for long, and this time around they decided to confront him, which they did. It was said that his explanation that in the memo he didn’t say he pays them N20, 000 monthly but he said N20, 000 every two months did not add up as the staff were not convinced.

And also angry at Fowler’s greed were the directors of Lagos Inland Revenue Service who are about six. He was able to pacify them recently when he bought them brand new Toyota Camry 2012 Model, which cost N8m each. However, he has not been able to pacify Gov. Fashola who came into conflict with him over his wasteful spending on his daughter’s wedding to Abiodun Kuku, son of Ogbeni Oja of Ijebu land, Chief Bayo Kuku, which took place in both Dubai and Lagos, last year.

Come December, 2012, orijoreporters reliably gathered that Fowler who heads LIRS, which currently remits N21billion every month to the state government from the Internal Generated Revenue (IGR), the agency makes every month, was recently mandated by the Lagos governor to raise the money to N25billion every month.

August 31, 2012