GEJ Sacks Active Executive SIRS Chairman "Mashi"

We are getting reports that President Goodluck Jonathan has removed the Acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Alhaji Kabiru Mashi. Daily Trust report.


In a statement written and signed through the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, on Wednesday.

He said: “Mr. Ogungbesan, a Coordinating Director at FIRS, replaces Alhaji Kabiru Mashi who has served as acting Executive Chairman of the agency since 2012″.

The president has approved the appointment of Mr. Samuel Ogungbesan as Acting Executive Chairman of the FIRS.

The presidential spokesman said Ogungbesan’s appointment took immediate effect.

It was learnt that Mashi had led the agency in acting capacity for two years without confirmation by the president.