EXCLUSIVE: Tax Firm Alpha-Beta Linked To President Tinubu Sacks Eight Workers, Suspends Nine Over Alleged Whistleblowing

According to the sources, the affected employees were suspected of being linked to anonymous emails circulated within the company in May 2025, which raised concerns over staff welfare, favouritism, and alleged corruption at Alpha-Beta.

Alpha-Beta Consulting LLP, a tax consultancy firm widely linked to President Bola Tinubu, has sacked eight staff members and suspended nine others amid allegations that the affected workers were targeted for whistle-blowing and exposing corruption and internal irregularities within the organisation, SaharaReporters has learnt.

Multiple sources within the firm told SaharaReporters that the mass sacking and suspensions, carried out on Friday, January 30, 2026, were orchestrated by the company’s Managing Director, Mr. Akinsanya Doherty, under what staff described as “performance excuses,” despite the absence of any formal appraisal to justify the terminations.

According to the sources, the affected employees were suspected of being linked to anonymous emails circulated within the company in May 2025, which raised concerns over staff welfare, favouritism, and alleged corruption at Alpha-Beta.

“Mr. Doherty, in his regular show of vendetta and pettiness, terminated the appointments of eight staff members using performance excuses even when there was no appraisal,” one of the sources told SaharaReporters.

Among those sacked was Kazeem Badmus, described by colleagues as a high-performing software developer.

Sources said Badmus played a critical role in 2017 when Alpha-Beta faced a system crisis after a former Managing Director allegedly left with access credentials to the firm’s core applications.

“He was one of the staff members gathered in a hotel to quickly develop another EBS platform within days to save the company from imminent shame,” a source said.

Also dismissed was Okoro, who headed customer service and reportedly won multiple annual awards with financial rewards.

Sources alleged that Okoro was first redeployed without duties over suspicions that he knew the authors of the anonymous mails before he was eventually fired under performance-related claims.

Another affected staff member, Akin Oderinde, was reportedly targeted after he spoke during a meeting in the third quarter of 2025, where he referenced performance-and-profit-related bonuses paid by the Lagos Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) and suggested Alpha-Beta adopt a similar structure. Sources said he was later pressured to apologise.

A legal officer, Joyce, was also among those whose appointments were terminated. The workers alleged that she was sacrificed to appease another lawyer,

Kemi Fawole, who was mentioned in anonymous mails alleging a personal relationship with Mr. Doherty.

Joyce reportedly complained at a December 2025 meeting about remaining on contract for three years without being regularised.

Sources further alleged that two other staff members, Yemi and Awa, were dismissed due to perceived loyalty to a retired senior staff member who was said to be critical of Doherty’s leadership.

The retired staff member was reportedly denied gratuity shortly before retirement and later asked to return her official vehicle, despite claims of preferential treatment for others.

Nine other employees were suspended, some without pay for two months, while others were issued caution letters.

The firm’s employees also alleged a climate of fear within the company, warning that “many secrets,” including claims of sexual harassment, could surface if the current leadership changes.

SaharaReporters gathered that Mr. Doherty has repeatedly boasted of strong political connections, including ties to senior government officials linked to Alpha-Beta.

Alpha-Beta Consulting LLP is a firm long associated with President Bola Tinubu. The company has for years been at the centre of controversy over its role in Lagos State’s tax collection system, largely due to its historical ties to Tinubu, who governed the state from 1999 to 2007 before becoming President.

Last week, SaharaReporters reported that Mr. Doherty allegedly threatened to “deal with” a former employee, Comrade Segun Oluwasanmi, during a December 2025 meeting, claiming he was linked to anonymous emails that revealed internal grievances within the company.

This was disclosed to SaharaReporters by Alpha-Beta employees, who said the meeting took place in December 2025 with two security agents present, following Mr. Doherty’s response to anonymous emails dated May 19, 25, and 30, 2025, sent by individuals identifying themselves as “Concerned Staff.”

The staff said the emails raised issues such as “stagnation, lack of promotion, favouritism, selective promotion copying Seyi Tinubu (President Tinubu’s son), Wale Edun (Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy), all staff and some politicians.”

According to one of the workers, Mr. Doherty “dared us to record the meeting in which he threatened to deal with Comrade Segun Oluwasanmi and told some lies against him,” adding that “he only tried to rope Comrade Segun Oluwasanmi to intimidate him into silence.”

The workers insisted that the mails were sent after Oluwasanmi had already left the company and that “Mr. Doherty knew the man knew nothing about the mails but he was looking for a way to deal with him like he threatened in the meeting.”

The staff members further disclosed that Alpha-Beta management had, in earlier internal correspondence dated May 26 and June 20, 2025, accused “disgruntled staff members” of being behind the anonymous mails after what it described as forensic investigations.

“He was bragging about his status and the educational achievement of his children while making justifications for his actions,” one of the workers said, including his explanation for “paying some retired staff who were members of his cabal for a year after retirement and the one that resigned in 2022 but was still collecting salary in the name of consulting.”