Malami Committee Working To Recover Stamp Duties – Presidency
By Insidebusiness.ng
The Presidency on Tuesday said a duly authorised committee under the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) is working to reconcile, recover and transfer all Stamp Duties into Stamp Duties Central Account.
Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, disclosed this in a statement titled “Stamp Duty: Facts Nigerians Need to Know ”.
The presidential spokesman provided more clarification following the controversy over the purported trapped N89 trillion which started last Friday when the Secretary of the dissolved Presidential Committee on Reconciliation and Recovery of Stamp Duties Revenue, Muhammadu Gudaji Kazaure, said President Buhari secretly constituted the committee and that he was being denied access to Mr. President to provide a progress report.
Shehu, who had earlier on Saturday said nothing gave credence to wild accusations made against the administration and dismissed the notion that Hon. Gudaji was stopped from meeting with the President, who said President Buhari had not “completely ignored these matters.”
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He said the work of the Malami committee “is ongoing, it is not finished yet and the President will continue to show his keen interest in the matter of Stamp Duty collection.”
The statement read: “Our good friend and a committed party member, Hon Gudaji has tried to draw me into a public debate which I don’t consider a good idea.
“In a video clip in Hausa and a press release in English both by this good friend of the administration, Hon. Gudaji Kazaure, invited me to answer questions, some of which are completely lacking in imagination.
“I would have ignored the allegations therein. Yet, a wise man once said that a lie can travel the world while the truth is still wearing his shoes. It is on the basis of the above that I decided to put some things straight and respond directly to Hon. Kazaure’s questions were posed to me.
