The Kano State House of Assembly on Tuesday recommended the sack of Chairman of the state Internal Revenue Service (KIRS), Abdurrasaq Datti Salihi, within 48 hours.
The house issued the directive in its unanimous resolution at the plenary on Tuesday.
Speaker of the house, Hamisu Ibrahim Chedari, said the immediate sack of the Salihi has become necessary to redeem the poor revenue performance of the service.
Chedari also constituted an eight-member ad-hoc committee to investigate activities of the service and the rationale for the perceived poor performance of the organisation.
The speaker who cited the drastic shortfall of KIRS as reported by Economic Confidential 2020 Annual State Viability Index (ASVI), described the performance as low and would not be accepted.
The ASVI report had revealed that Kano generated N30 billion in 2020 as against N40 billion and N44 billion generated in 2019 and 2018 respectively.
Chedari said the house was worried over the poor performance of the revenue board under the present leadership.
”The house has also received several petitions and letters of complaint on the attitude and lack of performance of the service of the chairman. It is based on this development that the assembly resolved to recommend the sacking of the chairman within 48 hours,” he said.
