Concern Nigerlites Demands Police to Prosecute Suspected Revenue Staffers Involved in Alleged Financial Scandal

By YM Bina

Concern Nigerlites has charged the NIger State Police command to as a matter of urgency formerly ensure the arraignment of eight suspected staff of the Niger State Internal Revenue Service (NSIRS) who were arrested by the SCIB for investigation months after their arrest.

This followed several months of suspecting that the affected staff involved in the alleged money scandal were still in the custody of the police without prosecution of the suspects to ensure justice and sets free the innocent once if any.

It was revealed that eight staff of the board among them a female suspected staffers leaving a very luxury lifestyle through accumulation of many cars and several landed properties across the state were in the Custody of the operatives of the Anti fraud unit of the SCID and assisted the operatives in their investigations.

Earlier, the police approached Chief Magistrate Court One in Minna for further remand to complete investigations of the suspects before they would be arraigned in court ahead of prosecution after the police had completed their investigations but still awaiting to be presented in court.

The suspected staff of the Niger State Internal Revenue Service (NSIRS) were arrested for allegedly involved in the diversion of the state revenue generated worth billions of naira to their private pockets in the state .

It was reliably gathered that many staff were involved but only eight were than in the custody of the SCID for questioning, while examining the financial records to determine the full extent of the alleged diversion.

It was further discovered that diversion and misappropriation has been the trend of the staff involved in the scandal over the years in which this term some senior staff were also beneficiaries of the looted resources at the detriment of the citizens of the state.

Reports from sources indicates that several billions of naira have gone down the drain over the years in the Niger State Internal Revenue Service until the recent discovery by the state government.