Alleged salary padding: Imo fires Revenue boss
By STEVE UZOECHI, Owerri
Barely two weeks after the Director of Accounts at the Imo Internal Revenue Service (IIRS), Jude Ogwunga was arrested for alleged fraudulent practises, the Chairman of the Board, Chief Emeka Udegbulam has now also been sacked.
Udegbulam was indicted for alleged sharp practises and complicit inaction while the Director of Accounts, Ogwunga overreached his powers through administrative high-handedness.
While the sacked chairman stayed aloof, Ogwunga was hiring and threatening to fire workers with or without waiver. He was literally playing god at the IIRS and was so powerful to the extent that he allegedly stayed two years beyond his service year and defied redeployment until men of the Department of State Services (DSS) stormed his office and led him away.
Angered by the rot discovered following the bust of the Director of Accounts by the DSS, Governor Hope Uzodinma ordered the sack of the IIRS Chairman.
Consequently, Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwunonso Okeke was Friday appointed by Governor Hope Uzodinma, as the Interim Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the state Internal Revenue Service (IIRS).
In an official letter dated February 18, 2022, and signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Chief Cosmos Iwu, the appointment of Okeke was to commence with immediate effect. (Text, excluding headline, courtesy Saturday Telegraph)
