Tax Man Tunde Fowler, Handlers In Intense Underground Moves To Protect FIRS Appointment From ‘Fake Degree’ Mess

Adulation has turned to concern as glad tiding is now tainted with the mess of scandal threatening the elevation of status.

That is the situation Tunde Fowler, the celebrity lagos tax man recently appointed as head of the Federal Inland Revenue Service by President Muhammadu Buhari has found himself.

The man of elevated professional and social status is presently engulfed in a tale of fake degree brouhaha.

The doctorate degree that has earned him the respect of other men and set him apart as a one not to one not to be joked with is now labeled ‘fake’.

According to shattering revelation made by online platform saharareporter ‘‘Ph.D’ obtained from IIU in May 2007 was fake’
Tunde Fowler

Trending revelations have it that ‘Seven years ago, a BBC investigation labelled IIU as a fake institution dishing out “substandard and worthless degrees” to individuals, especially influential politicians and business men from Africa.

The non-existent university is said to be linked to Baron Knowth, a chartered accountant whose real name was discovered to be Jeffrey Wooller’

According information made available by news platform Punch since the damning development came to light after the announcement of Tunde Fowler as head of the FIRS, the man at the centre of the mess has been taking desperate measures to distance self from the controversial degree

The embattled new appointee is said to have hurriedly edited the qualification that occupied a place of pride in his resume from his Wikipedia linkage as well as from the website of the Lagos Inland Revenue Service.

Fowler came to public reckoning as front man of the Lagos state tax collection agency.

Further digs revealed that as the mess of the fake degree continue to smear his image Fowler and his handlers have gone hard to work to halt the tide.

Informants claim that their underground working is targeted at achieving one major aim – protecting the new appointment of ‘Dr Fowler’.

Sources divulged protectors of his image are hard at work selling the mess to anti corruption postured president Buhari as ‘handiwork’ of detractors.

Some are said to have hit the media alley to ‘contain’ continuous interest – and ultimately effect a blackout.

Further revelation have it that the last part of the protection game play is unfolding in the political circle as his backers call him favors and strike bargain to prevent a political backlash that might question his ‘integrity’ as occupier of such a vital position ,against the background of the certificate mess enveloping his image and person.