FIRS Boss Tunde Fowler ‘’Roped’’ Into Tough Talk In Buhari’s Independence Speech

Charles Oyelesi

Chief Executive of the Federal Inland Revenue Service Babatunde Fowler is at the center of a fresh discourse.

He has been fingered as the primary target of the tough talks in President Muhammadu Buhari’s independence day speech.

President Buhari disclosed that revenue-generating agencies will come under intense scrutiny and there will severe consequences for shortcomings.

“Our revenue-generating and reporting agencies will come under much greater scrutiny, going forward, as the new performance management framework will reward exceptional revenue performance, while severe consequences will attend failures to achieve agreed revenue targets,” Buhari stated.

This development is been tied to the query issued to Fowler – in the name of the president -by Chief of Staff Abba Kyari, as well as raging talks regarding the Tax collection agency, the last general election, and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo societynow.ng learned.

Societynow.ng gathered that the fresh talks paint an emerging picture of President Buhari’s tough stance – in his independence day speech – serving as a hint of what is to come the way of Fowler in days to come.

This is against the background of claims in some quarters that powerful players in the corridor of power are already battling to push out fowler and install another person.