FIRS: Fowler requested tenure extension hours before Buhari appointed replacement
Nigeria, Dec. 10 -- President Muhammadu Buhari may have left the immediate past chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Tunde Fowler, shocked with the replacement Monday of the revenue chief.
Mr Fowler on Monday wrote to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, asking to be allowed to continue his work at the helm of the FIRS to "consolidate and build on the achievements" which he highlighted in an attachment to his letter.
Mr Fowler's letter, obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, was dated December 9, the expiration date of his tenure. Rather than grant Mr Fowler's request, however, President Buhari hours later announced the appointment of Muhammad Nami as the new chief executive of the FIRS, thereby discharging M...
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