Bayelsa government seal off NDDC office over N336.17million tax default
Development Commission (NDDC) in Yenagoa Bayels state
- The office was put under lock and key for allegedly failing to pay tax for up to four years The Bayelsa state government officials from the state board of internal revenue, on Friday, sealed off the Yenagoa office of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over an alleged tax default to the tune of N336.17million.
chizconet.blogspot.com learnt that the interventionist agency in the region is allegedly owing the state government since 2014. The board’s enforcement team, with full complement of security operatives, drawn from the Nigeria police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, stormed the premises of the commission, located on Yenagoa-Mbiama Road about 8am, to carry out the sealing off. In an interview after the operation, the director of compliance of the board, Mr. Robert Lokoson, said the team was at the NDDC office to recover a tax debt of N336.17m owed the state government by the company since 2014.
