On August 5, 2022, The Lagos state government, through the Lagos Internal Revenue Service, launched an anonymous whistleblowing initiative, which allows callers to raise concerns regarding incidents of wrongdoing, fraud or unethical behaviour within the workplace. In this regard and, LIRS Executive Chairman, Ayodele Subair in this interview with Sunday Ehigiator, shed more light on the policy, the importance of whistleblowers, while also assuring them of their safety
The state government recently launched the whistleblowing policy expected to improve service delivery of your commission, can you take us through this policy, how it started, and what it intends to achieve?
Whistleblowing is all about reporting certain types of inappropriate acts, wrongdoings, and financial crimes that could occur within the system; when I say within the system, I mean both internally and externally, within LIRS, outside LIRS, in various offices of private companies, public establishments, etc.
We expect that anybody who knows of any such inappropriate act can report it to an appropriate authority with the whole aim of sanitizing the system and making things more transparent and accountable.
Does the LIRS structure support this policy?
Yes, it’s a framework of the Lagos state government and the Lagos state government in its infinite wisdom and wanting to strengthen the code of ethics and high standards decided to adopt this framework as a statewide policy.
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