For the third time in two weeks, the former chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, has been the guest of the Lagos office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), according to a report by SaharaReporters.
Fowler had appeared before the commission on November 2, November 4 and today November 16 for questioning over alleged sundry financial infractions while he was the boss of the FIRS, a job he was denied a second term.
For some analysts, the travail of Fowler is political, an attempt to discredit his right hand man, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who was the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu.
The grilling of Fowler, according to the report, is also connected to the relationship of the Lagos Inland Revenue Service, an agency of the Lagos government which Fowler served as its boss and Alpha Beta, a company believed to be owned by Tinubu.
