The Federal Inland Revenue Service on Monday denied the claim that it aided the election campaign of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in the last presidential election with the sum of N90bn.
A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr Timi Frank, had last week alleged that the FIRS spent the said sum through Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
But in a statement denying the allegation by the Director, Communications, Mr Wahab Gbadamosi, FIRS said in the last four years the agency had not received up to N90bn per annum as cost of collection from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee.
According to him, remittances from FAAC which had never grossed up to N100bn per annum was the source of staff salaries and emoluments, training of over 8,000 members of staff, and management of over 150 offices.
Gbadamosi said, “The FIRS operates on behalf of Nigerians. Taxpayers’ money, including the operational funds of the service, is sacred and we exercise extra care and diligence in expenditures, even after such funds must have been appropriated by the National Assembly.”
The FIRS has, therefore, urged members of the public to ignore the claims of the former national publicity secretary of the APC as he was only seeking cheap popularity.
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