Head of the presidential team
on pension reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, who is currently on the run over
alleged complicity in the N195 billion pension fraud, has said the Head of
Service of the Federation, Isa Sali, has questions to answer on why 98 per cent
of pensioners were denied their benefits in 2012.
Maina said in a
statement yesterday that: “It is surprising to note that when the pension team
concluded paper-work preparation for the payment of November, 2012 monthly
pension, as usual, the PRTT (Pension Reform Task Team) sent it to the Head of
Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bello Isa Sali, who usually approves
the payment without delay; but could not attend to it, and with no official
communication to date.”
on pension reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, who is currently on the run over
alleged complicity in the N195 billion pension fraud, has said the Head of
Service of the Federation, Isa Sali, has questions to answer on why 98 per cent
of pensioners were denied their benefits in 2012.
Maina said in a
statement yesterday that: “It is surprising to note that when the pension team
concluded paper-work preparation for the payment of November, 2012 monthly
pension, as usual, the PRTT (Pension Reform Task Team) sent it to the Head of
Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bello Isa Sali, who usually approves
the payment without delay; but could not attend to it, and with no official
communication to date.”
According to him, there is
what he described as “verifiable” evidence that there is so much looting in
which his team had set out to correct regretting that the process of preparing
documents for payments had been “desperately hijacked” by Mr. Sali.
Maina further
alleged that Sali deliberately refused to sign documents completed by the
Pension Reform Task Team, since November.
According to him:
“As soon as the current Senate issues erupted, the pension team wonders why
Alhaji Sali facilitated the hijacking of the payment which would ruin the
Federal Government pension transformation agenda.”
In the statement
signed by the PRTT media consultant, Olajide Fashikun, Maina also lamented that
in the past three months, his team had been stripped of supervisory powers over
pension matters.
“The unfortunate
consequences of these actions are that Nigeria pensioners’ funds are being
stolen through a remittal alert where a pensioner received bank alert whereas
he is credited with nothing in his bank account, more than 90 per cent of these
pensioners are out rightly denied pensions while about two per cent of them are
paid only 10 per cent of their entitled pensions.
“With the current
distraction of the Senate, the pension fraudulent activities have not only
resurfaced, but it is bigger, bolder and more widespread and likely to be worse
than those who are standing trial.
“Consequently, a
whole new vista of pension looting era is back since November 2012.”.
Efforts to reach
the Head of Service for his reaction to these allegationswere unsuccessful as
at press time.
The Inspector
General of Police, Abubakar Mohammed, disclosed last week that Maina had fled
the country hence his inability to execute the warrant of arrest issued by the
Senate.
what he described as “verifiable” evidence that there is so much looting in
which his team had set out to correct regretting that the process of preparing
documents for payments had been “desperately hijacked” by Mr. Sali.
Maina further
alleged that Sali deliberately refused to sign documents completed by the
Pension Reform Task Team, since November.
According to him:
“As soon as the current Senate issues erupted, the pension team wonders why
Alhaji Sali facilitated the hijacking of the payment which would ruin the
Federal Government pension transformation agenda.”
In the statement
signed by the PRTT media consultant, Olajide Fashikun, Maina also lamented that
in the past three months, his team had been stripped of supervisory powers over
pension matters.
“The unfortunate
consequences of these actions are that Nigeria pensioners’ funds are being
stolen through a remittal alert where a pensioner received bank alert whereas
he is credited with nothing in his bank account, more than 90 per cent of these
pensioners are out rightly denied pensions while about two per cent of them are
paid only 10 per cent of their entitled pensions.
“With the current
distraction of the Senate, the pension fraudulent activities have not only
resurfaced, but it is bigger, bolder and more widespread and likely to be worse
than those who are standing trial.
“Consequently, a
whole new vista of pension looting era is back since November 2012.”.
Efforts to reach
the Head of Service for his reaction to these allegationswere unsuccessful as
at press time.
The Inspector
General of Police, Abubakar Mohammed, disclosed last week that Maina had fled
the country hence his inability to execute the warrant of arrest issued by the
Senate.
Source: People’s Daily
