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The chair of the board of Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST), Maimuna Abubakar, has accused the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) of plotting to “kill and bury” her agency by “stealing” her mandate to produce and sell adhesive stamps.
Abubakar alleged in a series of tweets, via @ref_ng, that FIRS stole this historic and constitutional responsibility of NIPOST by surreptitiously inserting a clause in the Finance Bill, which empowers it to take over the production and sale national stamps, at the expense of her own agency.
She consequently appealed to members of the public to intervene in the ongoing tussle between NIPOST and FIRS in the interest of justice.
The tweet reads, “I am worried for NIPOST, having sleepless night because of NIPOST, we need the general public to come to our aid, FIRS stole our mandate. FIRS are now selling stamps instead of buying from us.
“What is happening, are we expected to keep quite and let FIRS kill and bury NIPOST?
We need to get our mandate back.
“NIPOST are the sole custodians of national stamps, another agency printing and selling stamps is against the law of the land.
“FIRS did not only steal our stamps but also our ideas, what NIPOST had worked for since 2016, our documents, patent and sneaked everything into finance bill and tactically removed the name of NIPOST.
“I like to make this clear, NIPOST is the only agency charged with the responsibility of producing adhesive stamps and revenue for the for the purchase of such stamp accrues to NIPOST.
“There is no where in FIRS act or stamp duty act where it’s so stated that FIRS can produce stamp or sale stamp.
“Did you know that NIPOST had generated over 60b in NIPOST CBN account for the Federal Government?”
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