REVENUE PIRACY SCANDAL ROCKS AMAC; CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER, OTHERS ACCUSED OF "INSIDE JOB"
A massive corruption scandal has sent shockwaves through the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) as a coalition of residents, under the aegis of Concerned Citizens of AMAC (CCA), officially petitioned heads of Nigeria’s top security and anti-graft agencies.
At the heart of the controversy is a high-stakes allegation of "Revenue Piracy," involving the forgery of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) designed to illegally divert municipal funds into unauthorized accounts.
The "Inside Job" Unmasked
In a formal petition dated March 3, 2026, the CCA named Mr. Charles Biyanko, the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) of AMAC, as a central figure in an alleged "criminal syndicate."
The group claims Biyanko, conspired with officials from the Department of Outdoor Advertisement and Signage (DOAS-FCTA) to hijack AMAC’s constitutionally protected revenue streams.
"This is a classic case of inside sabotage," a spokesperson for the CCA stated.
"We have high-ranking officials within the council allegedly providing administrative 'cover' and sensitive data to external actors to facilitate the illegal collection of signage and mobile advertising levies."
The petition, addressed to the EFCC, the Inspector General of Police, and the Director General of the DSS, outlines four major grounds for criminal
The accused are alleged to have forged signatures to create a "Phantom MoU" that falsely cedes AMAC’s powers to the FCT Ministry, bypassing the Treasury Single Account (TSA) protocols.
Despite a court hearing scheduled for this Thursday regarding an existing injunction, the group alleges that Dr. Fatima Helen Amanabo (Director, DOAS) and her team continue to deploy "fake enforcement agents" to harass business owners.
Charles Biyanko is accused of breaching his oath of office by actively working to frustrate the revenue mandates of the very Council he is paid to protect.
Named in the Petition are:
Dr. Fatima Helen Amanabo Director, DOAS Lead External Facilitator,
Mr. Charles Biyanko, Chief Revenue Officer, AMAC Internal Complicity & Data Leakage,
Mr. Sunday K. Azaki Deputy Director, DOAS Enforcement of Illegal Levies,
Ms. Esther Gullong Billing Officer, DOAS.
The CCA has called on the FCT Minister and the AMAC Chairman to immediately suspend the named public officers to prevent the destruction of evidence.
They are also demanding that the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) blacklist media practitioners allegedly being paid to disseminate "pro-syndicate" propaganda.
The group recevealed that NO MoU EXISTS ceding AMAC revenue powers.
"The era of revenue leakage through internal treachery is over," the petition concluded.
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