By Dare Ojelade
Some staff of the Lagos Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) embarked on a peaceful protest on Monday, 7 November, 2022, against what they described as their inhuman treatment by the management of the agency.
The staff embarked on the protest from the LIRS office, down to Alausa Secretariat and on to the state House of Assembly.
Some of the protesting staff who spoke with thegazellenews.com berated the management for treating them with contempt and neglect.
“We generate the highest revenue for the state government but it’s a shame that the LIRS management has been treating us with contempt,” one of the staff told our correspondent.
Another complained bitterly of how the management has been toying with the promotion of the staff. “In the last 10 years that I’ve been working in this agency, I’ve only been promoted once. My own is even better, there are some senior colleagues here who have only been promoted only once despite spending between 15 and 20 years as staff of this agency,” another staff told thegazellenews.com.
The staff also complained that they operate without any incentive with no gratuity.
“The only thing we look forward after leaving this place is only our contribution to the pension fund. After that nothing in form of incentive. The allowances are not forthcoming and they don’t care about our welfare,” another staff said.
An aide of the state Head of Service who spoke with the protesting staff urged them to go back to work, informing them that an emergency meeting is being called on Tuesday, 8 November, 2022 to address the issue.
Efforts to speak with the Public Affairs unit of the agency yielded no result.
Our correspondent was told they are not allowed to speak with the media because they are civil servants.
