Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service
(FIRS), Tunde Fowler, has disclosed that the
organisation received more than 700,000
applications from the recent job advert it
placed for 500 vacancies.
The chairman who said this yesterday in
Abuja during a meeting with the House of
Representatives Committee on Public
Petition, noted that, out of the 700,000
applicants who applied for FIRS job opening,
more than 2,000 had first class degrees in
various disciplines and were qualified to be
engaged by the Service.
Fowler made this disclosure while addressing
a petition from some of the applicants, who
claimed that they have been excluded from
the employment processes.
He explained that FIRS would recruit only
500 people, noting that the exercise was
designed only to expand the country’s
revenue and to increase manpower for tax
revenue collection. He however assured the
applicants that the organisation will ensure
fairness in its recruitment process. "We have
secured waiver and endorsement from the
Federal Character Commission in order to
ensure that the right thing is done," Fowler
said.
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