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Saturday 18 April 2015

Exposed!Why the BIRS, Local Government amendment Tax laws were Hurriedly passed


Gov. Suswam
Signed the bills to cover his financial sleaze
Just days to the Governorship and House of Assembly elections,  the Benue state governor, Rt. Hon. Gabriel Suswam signed into law amendments to the laws governing the Benue Internal Revenue Service ( BIRS ) and the Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs amongst other bills.
This assent was even as the House of Assembly which was supposed to have sat upon and approved these before his assent had fought over them and even ended that seating in a stalemate nasty certain members especially of the opposition All Progressives Congress ( APC ) had walked out the sitting.
Fresh revelations have surfaced as to why these bills were signed into law even with the accompanying crisis that trailed their presentation on the floor of the house.
Sources within the BNHA, have revealed that these bills were rejected by the State Assembly because they were sneaked into the day's proceeding without reflecting them on the order paper sent to the members in preparatory for the sitting's deliberation.
Unfortunately it has been exposed that although the process was believed to be reason for the protest, further investigations have shown that the contents of the bills were the real reason for the protest and subsequent boycott.
Wombo and Oklobia
Major beneficiaries of the bills
According to our source,  the BIRS and Local Government ammendment bills had ulterior motives in the ammendments presented as they are meant to cover the financial under deals of the present administration which had involved itself in serious indicting sharp practices.
Major beneficiaries of these bills were the State Governor,  Gabriel Suswam,  Special Adviser to the Governor on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Prince Solomon Wombo, Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Omadachi Oklobia, Chairman of the Benue Internal Revenue Service ( BIRS ), Mr. Gabriel Asen who have greatly enmeshed themselves in financial complications.
According to our source, "the BIRS law was amended to transfer powers inherent in the Board and its Chairman as well as strip it of autonomy in a manner that will make funds accrued to the board an entitlement of the finance commissioner. With this all the monies the governor and Oklobia have been drawing weekly from there could be mentioned as money for bogus capital projects which have already began surface on paper and so written off".
Meanwhile the Chieftaincy and Local Government bill was to also benefit Prince Wombo,  Suswam and his elder brother, Terkur, who is intended to be a major beneficiary of the creation of extra first class chiefdoms.  According to information, the bill was made to hurriedly put in place transition committees headed by chairmen who will be voted large sums of money on paper while nothing goes to the council so as to cover for the unaccountable millions spent on the campaigns in the state by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ).  The money which was largely drawn by Solomon Wombo and Suswam from the joint Accounts,  has become a nightmare for the duo as the are scared what an incoming government may decide to do to them.
Our source further said it was the onus for Suswam's plea to Ortom to take care of him when he is out of office as there was still so much sleaze to cover up in the administration.

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