Opinion: The Burden of Leadership At FIRS, By Abdullahi Ismaila Ahmad
Businesses have virtually screeched to a halt nationwide and globally. There is a global oil glut, as buyers have disappeared, taking with them the expected oil revenue of the country. Expected revenue from the non-oil sector has also dipped, alongside the drastic drop in business and economic activities.
Despite this bleak economic outlook, the revenue deliverable benchmark for the FIRS remains at the pre-pandemic target of N8.5 trillion. Never mind that the Service was compelled by the current business realities to provide strategic tax palliatives to taxpayers.
Yet, despite the pandemic and its economic consequences, the FIRS management, ably led by Mr. Nami, was able to post an impressive Q1 performance by achieving an increment of 15 per cent over the corresponding period in 2019, to the delight of all. This is a clear indication that the eggheads at the FIRS are up to the herculean task before them.
But just as the management team at FIRS is getting on with the onerous task ahead, Janus-faced human nature is poised to further make the matter insufferable for the crack team. A Janus-faced person is intractable, never showing his/her true colour, whether a friend or a foe. Like a chameleon, it is a friend today and a foe tomorrow. Verily, Shakespeare reminds us that “there is no art to find the mind’s construction in the face”.
This time the Janus-faced is pushing for a census to determine which ethnic group populates the FIRS more than the others. And were this to be so, it would be obvious which has the upper hand. But such cheap blackmailer will not distract the focused management team at the FIRS from pursuing its proactive policies in the best interest of the Service and the country.
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