{"id":14675,"date":"2015-07-13T16:06:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14675"},"modified":"2015-07-13T16:06:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:06:29","slug":"igr-task-force-clamps-down-on-govt-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14675","title":{"rendered":"IGR Task Force Clamps Down On Govt Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=14679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14679\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/imo-gov.jpg\" alt=\"imo gov\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/imo-gov.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/imo-gov-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy Okey Alozie<br \/>\nThe newly inaugurated task force on illegal revenue collection has shifted its searchlight on officials of the Imo Rescue Mission team.<br \/>\nThe task force members on Monday swung into action in Owerri metropolis to uncover some irregularities linked with government officials our source disclosed.<br \/>\nThe chairman of  the task force Hon Chief Okey Azu who confirmed the story said officials of the government who were recently dissolved still operate secretly to collect revenue in the name of  Government.<br \/>\nHe hinted that the groups parading themselves as task force on illegal use of machine  in Owerri are on  their  own and not for  the government .<br \/>\nAccording to  him, the groups have been dissolved but they refused to handover. \u201cAm surprised that all the money they collect from those they arrested for illegal use  of  motor cycle was not accounted for even up till now\u201d Hon Okey Azu disclosed.<br \/>\nHe however warned those rescue mission members doing such things to redress their steps  or  be  prepared to face  the wrath of the law, adding  that illegal collection of  Revenue is a sin and sabotage against the state.<br \/>\nThe chairman of  the task force also announced that any illegal collector  of IGR discovered from now  on must  be  prosecuted no matter  his position in the society.<br \/>\nHe disclosed that Imo State Government has lost big  amount  of fake  IGR collector.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is  now time to call a spade a spade,  by  exposing  those behind this fraudulent act\u201d the chairman insisted.<br \/>\nMeanwhile the state Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha  has received Audit report a special committee that carried verification exercise in both ministries and local government areas.<br \/>\nReports from the committee shows so many factors laid to the unnecessary rise in the state wage bill.<br \/>\nAccording to record, over 92% of Imo allocation is used as salary for Imo Workers and Government appointees information disclosed that high percentage of this goes to ghost workers. This situation as we learnt has made the Governor very uncomfortable.<br \/>\nMoreover our source revealed that some of those who close to government have secret account where the use to siphoned public fund.         <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Okey Alozie The newly inaugurated task force on illegal revenue collection has shifted its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14680,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions\/14680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}