The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is currently questioning a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler.

Fowler, who was also a former Chief Executive Officer, Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), responded to an invitation from the EFCC on Monday.

This was confirmed to Channels Television by the spokesperson of the EFCC, Mr Wilson Uwujaren.

Fowler, a longtime ally of Bola Tinubu, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was called for interrogation over an alleged N5bn fraud carried out while he headed FIRS.

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It was further gathered that nine senior officials were detained by the EFCC over alleged multi-billion Naira fraud in 2019.

President Muhammadu Buhari had sacked Fowler in 2019 after he was issued a query for worsening tax revenues since 2015.

He was also accused of a lavish lifestyle, bankrolling extravagant parties and concerts in Lagos, poor corporate governance structures at the FIRS, poor audits at the FIRS, high handedness in office, diversion of funds, brazen corruption and awarding contracts to stooges and cronies.