Wike threatens to takeover FIRS offices

Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, has threatened to take over all offices of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, in the state if it continues with its bullying.

The governor spoke while addressing business owners in the state at a stakeholders’ meeting held in Port Harcourt.

He warned the FIRS to desist from bullying the state with federal might.

The governor said he cannot continue to beg the federal government for what belongs to the state.

The governor told oil firms, construction companies and other business owners operating in the state to start remitting their value added tax to the state government beginning this September.

Wike who lamented the injustice in the country said Rivers state generated 15 billion naira in June 2021 but got 4.7billion naira as allocation while Kano produced 2.8billion naira in the same month and got 2.8billion naira.