Top Line

Tuesday 12 March 2013

See the face of a Nigerian minister whose company evaded tax and yet still serving!

Different strokes?Between Nigeria Minister and UK Minister

Updated 2 seconds ago
Gaius Nosa A minister in UK, Chris Huhme and his wife were jailed for eight months for speeding points-swapping scam. Baroness Uddin was involved in the MPs expenses scandal in the UK. She claimed £180,000 in expenses and was immediately suspended and asked to repay £125,349. Also a 57 yera old labour MP, Margaret Marie was jailed for two year for fiddling her expenses. In Nigeria, a PDP serving minister used an unregistered company to defraud the Nigerian people of their sweats amounting to N2.7 billion and the said minister is still in govt. An ex governor stole N9 billion from his state treasury and was asked to refund N3million. Yakubu Yesuff stole N23 billion and was fined N750,000 by the court, meanwhile Nigerians cannot afford three square meal. Also the $483 million Halliburton Bribery Scandal is equally there. With all these actrocities, Jonathan led PDP govt is corrupt and we should not continue to place our future, that of our c
hildren and the generation yet unborn in the hands of Jonathan/Bamanga Awwal Tukur



See the case of a serving Minister in Nigeria. Edem Duke .He was cheating Nigeria and the sector which he is superintending, .The EFCC cleared him . The Senate too gave him a clean bill . The President still harbours him .He is not performing . Yet he is still the minister of Tourism .

IRS seals off minister’s hotel over tax evasion
The management of Mirage Hotel had to part with N1m part payment to stay open
Article | December 21, 2011 - 11:32am

The Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), on Tuesday, sealed off Mirage Hotel, Calabar, believed to be owned by a serving minister.

Solomon Ajimotokin, who led the FIRS enforcement team which sealed off the facility for a while, said that the action was taken over the alleged default in the payment of tax for two years.

The hotel was later reopened after its management issued a cheque of N1 million as part-payment of the amount owed.

Ajimotokin had earlier said that the hotel’s management only produced tax records of payment for 2009 and had refused to pay taxes for 2010 and 2011.

He said that FIRS was working within its mandate to ensure that tax defaulters were not allowed to continue to defraud the federal government. .