FIRS DIRECTOR ARRESTED FOR ACCEPTING N3M BRIBE

FIRS Boss

A deputy director with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Abumere Joseph Osagie, deputy director, has been arrested by EFCC in a case of abuse of office and bribery.

The suspect, who was a regional tax office, was picked following a complaint about his attempt to extort N5million from a university proprietor.

Osagie and one Jamila Ojora had on January 27, 2016 allegedly approached Senator Ahmed Datti, the Chancellor of Baze University, Abuja and gave him a tax assessment of N20,029, 496.00 through a letter of intent, which he paid.

However when he requested for the assessment certificate, they refused to oblige him. Instead they allegedly demanded for N5million gratification.

All pleas by him fell on deaf ears.

Senator Datti, therefore, petitioned the EFCC and was advised to play along. Consequently, marked N5million was delivered to the director through Ojora in a sting operation. Ojora was arrested after she collected the N5m. Her confession led to the arrest of Osagie .

The houses of the suspects were searched by operatives of the EFCC , and documents recovered.

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