Crime

Anambra: Moniepoint Services terminated.

Published

11 months ago

June 18, 2023

Stella Charles Akupue

Anambra: Moniepoint Services terminated.

Moniepoint Ltd services.

Anambra State Government has terminated the services of Moniepoint in the State for duping the state government revenue running into billions of Naira. Recall that Anambra State Government had engaged the services of Moniepoint to assist in collecting taxes from residents.

The Executive Director in charge of operations and other revenue in Anambra State, Dr Christian Madubuko, stated this while addressing journalists in his office, shortly after parading two suspected coordinators of the Monipoints arrested by security men in Awka, the state capital, on Friday.

He said that one of the suspects, Mr Ndubuisi Anadi Moniepoint, coordinator in Anambra State, was arrested over alleged financial rascality and removal of the state government payment system.

“These issues of Moniepoint are complex” You are in Anambra, and you must have heard many stories about people paying their taxes, which are not reflected in the government account.

“So we have been asking them what has been going wrong. You can imagine that a Keke operator will pay N2,500, and only N50 naira will hit the Government account, and the rest of the two thousand, four hundred and fifty Naira disappears without a trace. This is a fault, and we can’t accept it. We want the money paid by Anambra indigenes to be used to develop the state.

Anambra: Moniepoint Services terminated.

” We will fight it to the end. We want the money paid by our people to be used judiciously and for the purpose it was paid for. We will use these people to set an example for those who want to be funny in the future. And I can tell you that we are cancelling instantly the services of Moniepoint in Anambra State,” he said.

He stated that there are a lot of strange stories everywhere in the state about the activities of Moniepoint regarding taxes, and we don’t know which one is true.

According to him, the government wants to know who configured those PoS and for what purpose so that the government don’t get the money paid by the residents. He said the intention of the governor to digitalize the system was being sabotaged by the people within the system.

“We want to get this problem and treat them accordingly”, he stated. Madubuko further said that Mr Anadi will be charged in court soon.

On his part, the Moniepoint Coordinator, Mr Anadi, said the company received several notifications of the payment made by taxpayers that did not reflect in the government account.

According to him, it was a glitch in the system whereby the transaction would hit the Moniepoint platform but would not reflect in the Central Processing System.

When questioned about removing the government payment system, he accepted that they removed it without due notification to the government. He lamented that it was removed due to the enormous loss recorded by the business owners. He said that the company is working to resolve all pending issues.