FIRS Member Staff, Wife In Isolation Not Positive To Coronavirus

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has said that non of its staff has tested positive to the Coronavirus.

FIRS however, in a statement by the Director, Communications and Liaison Department, Abdullahi Ismaila Ahmad, confirmed that a “member of staff who went to pick his wife from the airport following her return from a trip abroad is currently and voluntarily observing the Federal Government advisory of self-isolation alongside his spouse at the couple’s home since Monday.

“Both husband and wife have not visited any FIRS offices or events since the wife retuned to Nigeria last Sunday.

“More importantly, both husband and wife have only been in self-isolation for five days and have NOT tested positive to Covid-19.”

Ismaila Ahmad further explained that before now, all FIRS offices had taken necessary precautions to protect both Staff and their esteemed taxpayers from Covid-19 through such safety measures as social distancing, temperature testing, disabling of the biometric sign in, and provision of hand sanitizers for staff and visitors to its offices nationwide as advised by the Federal Ministry of Health.

He said members of the public were therefore advised to discountenance the claim that an FIRS official has tested positive to Covid-19.