{"id":36331,"date":"2019-11-21T12:16:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=36331"},"modified":"2019-11-21T13:59:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:59:55","slug":"lirs-dragged-to-court-over-failure-to-pay-n1billion-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/lirs-dragged-to-court-over-failure-to-pay-n1billion-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"LIRS Dragged To Court Over Failure To Pay N1billion Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yiv8720635218yMail_cursorElementTracker_1574262148205\">Industrial Training Fund and its Governing council has dragged Lagos State Internal Revenue Service and its Board before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, for failure to pay N1,090,628 522.00.contribution to industrial training fund.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In an affidavit sworn to by ITF accountant Mr Adeleke Joseph Oyelola, the\u00a0 deponent averred that the defendant have more than five employees and a turn over of N50million in its establishments and notwithstanding its statutory obligation, failed to comply with the statutory\u00a0 obligation of contributing to the fund.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>ITF states that the defendant has never paid its statutory 1% levy of the amount on its annual pay roll to the ITF and has persistently defaulted from 2009 till date in the settlement of its liability to the fund.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv8720635218yMail_cursorElementTracker_1574262128672\">\n<div id=\"yiv8720635218yMail_cursorElementTracker_1574256482348\"><\/div>\n<div>ITF therefore instructed its solicitor to make a demand from the defendants, but they still refuse to pay.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv8720635218yMail_cursorElementTracker_1574256651003\"><\/div>\n<div>The plaintiff averred that the defendants have no defence whatsoever to this action.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv8720635218yMail_cursorElementTracker_1574262128672\">\n<div>Consequently, the plaintiffs claim against the defendants are as follows : An order directing the defendants to comply with the provisions of the\u00a0 industrial training fund Act 2011 by paying the sum assessed amounting to N1,090,628,522.00..being contribution to the fund for the period of April, 2009 to, 2014 together with interest\u00a0 for no-payments. The defendant has not filed any\u00a0 defence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv8720635218yMail_cursorElementTracker_1574257674849\">Meanwhile,\u00a0 the presiding Judge Oluremi oguntoyibo, has adjourned till 19th December, 2019.for hearing<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv8720635218yMail_cursorElementTracker_1574320134851\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industrial Training Fund and its Governing council has dragged Lagos State Internal Revenue Service and its Board before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, for failure to pay N1,090,628 522.00.contribution to industrial training fund.\u00a0<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,18,1593,17,624],"tags":[5788],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-36331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-crime","category-metro","category-news","category-politics","tag-lirs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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