Kano lawmakers issues Ganduje 48 hours ultimatum to sack internal revenue boss

Kano State House of Assembly members have passed a resolution giving the State governor, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje 48 hours ultimatum to sack the Chairman of Kano State Internal Revenue Service, AbduRazak Salihi.

The resolution was passed at plenary on Tuesday which was presided by the Speaker of the House.

The legislators fumed that the internally generated revenue of Kano State has degenerated to 10th despite being a commercial nerve centre without doing anything to salvage the situation, particularly with regards to VAT as Rivers and Lagos States were doing.

After sustaining the resolution to remove the IGR boss, the Speaker of the House, Hon. Hamisu Chidari in his address, said legislators were frustrated by the IGR Chairman’s non performance.

The Speaker revealed that series of letters were written to the Chairman requesting for the status of Kano’s IGR without success.

The chairman had written and submitted the reports to the Government through Permanent Secretary, Bureau of Lands.

Among other sins of the KIGR boss was conspiracy to cheat government by
reducing the tenement rates of the IPMAN from N250 to N100, which the house described as a total violation of the Constitution.

In separate remarks, the lawmakers agreed on the “non-performance of the Chairman in terms of revenue collection as well as lack of knowledge of what revenue is”.

The Speaker said the house has set up an eight-man Committee to probe the agency under Salihi.

He listed the decline in revenue generation among the issues that will be probed.

The Revenue Chairman, who was visibly disturbed, could not provide enough reasons on why he bypassed the House on issues of revenue collections in the state and on the reduction of Ground Tenement Rates.