Anambra state Revenue House at Immigration junction Awka is currently on fire as top management officials fight dirty over who takes custody of the state internally generated revenues running into billions of naira.
Moreso, one of the IGR partners of the state government named Bigly Oil and Gas has equally been fingered as conduit pipe allegedly planted by elements in the top management of AIRS to siphon government revenues.
While the Government of Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has proscribed cash collections and issuance of manual receipts, Bigly Oil and Gas and some other IGR partners of the state government still indulged in revenue cash collections and issuance of manual receipts inimical to the digitisation process.
Executive Director of Operations in the Anambra State Internal Revenue Service (AIRS) Dr. Christian Madubuko and the Executive Chairman of AIRS, Chief Greg Ezeilo no longer see eyeball to eyeball on issues of revenue collections and enforcements.
The Revenue House is now on fire because Ezeilo believes that Madubuko is ascribing responsibilities to himself without recourse to his office as Chairman and does not take orders from him especially as it concerns revenue enforcements.
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Madubuko on the other hand, maintained that the Chairman and his band of conduit pipes posing as revenue partners now see him as a stumbling block to their inordinate ambitions of sucking the state dry in the guise of revenue collections.
Madubuko insisted that the Chairman and his cronies want Governor Soludo to remove him so they can feed fat from the state IGR in spite of the fact that the governor gave them a mandate to increase Internally Generated Revenue or he would sack all of them and dissolve the board.
The situation at the Revenue House has become so messy and very unbecoming of top management officials washing their dirty linen in all sections of the online media as accusations and counter accusations of revenue diversions have become the order of the day.
– BY RAYMOND OZOJI, Awka
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