The tax agency under its new chairman, Mohammed Nami, recruited four directors in March, but the positions were not advertised as required by federal...
was done in violation of public service rules, a review by PREMIUM TIMES has shown.
Mr Nami said in a recent interview that he met an agency that had virtually collapsed he had to start “rebuilding from scratch.” To rebuild, Mr Nami implemented organisation-wide redeployments and hired new hands “to strengthen its capacity to deliver its mandate”. But in doing so, he brushed aside provisions of the public service rules and the FIRS’ internal guidelines on hiring to senior positions.
The newly-hired directors are Ahmed Musa ; Abdullahi Isma’ila , Aisha Hamza Mohammed , and Ahmed Ndanusa . Mr Ndanusa is a former director-general and later chairman of the Board of the Securities and Exchange Commission . “If there are no person with the relevant experience, qualification, competence and skill from within the system to be appointed, the vacant positions must be advertised in the national newspapers for at least six weeks, if it is an external recruitment,” it adds.
In reality, Mr Isma’ila’s employment is an example of how Mr Nami circumvented due process and in some cases recruited his loyalists to senior positions. “FIRS does not exist in a vacuum, as it is a creation of statute. Being so, the law setting it up always provides for the extent of its powers. Otherwise, it will be acting ultra vires its powers,” he said.
“The fact of the matter is that the Federal Inland Revenue Service is not a part of the Civil Service, even though it is a Public Service,” Mr Isma’ila told PREMIUM TIMES, insisting FIRS Board was not in breach of either the Public Service Rule or any law for that matter, including the HRPP, in retiring the affected directors.
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