The Senate Committee on Finance, on Thursday kicked against the appropriation of the sum of N1.6 billion by the Federal Inland Revenue Service FIRS as welfare package for its intending retirees in 2016.

The amount, according to FIRS, is meant for its annual event of recognising its retired staff explaining that the event could not be held for two years due to lack of fund.

The committee also frowned at the N700 million budget for medical bills of staff just as well as appropriation of over N16 billion earmarked as salaries of staff yet to be recruited. Speaking during a budget defence session with the FIRS, Chairman of the committee, John Enoh said the welfare package was quite outrageous as the agency had never spent such an amount before.

To this end, he asked the FIRS to present the total breakdown of the proposed expenditure as well submit details of what it spent last on its retired staff. “We will need a presentation that explains some particular cases of variation,” he said. His action followed observation by members of the committee that the budget for the retired staff welfare was unreasonable since the agency never spent such huge amount for that purpose.

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This guy thinks he can he can pull off those thievery stunts at federal level like he did in Lagos. Watching!

Not surprise!He has to give returns back to his god father Tinubu.

An agency that generate income daily,why should they still need such amount of money to recognize retirees?

If truly this govt really want to preach change,fed govt parastatals like this should always endeavor to give financial reports quarterly on the amount they have made and the expenses they incurred.

We need proper transparency and not telling us verbally they have made billions without evidence.

Thieves everywhere.

No surprises, he learnt the trade from the Grand occult master thief Tinubu now in APC.