- AGF Abubakar Malami alleged that officials of the pension scheme defrauded Nigeria of over N42billion
- Malami made this known in a memo he submitted to the Senate Ad-hoc Committee investigating the recall of Abdulrasheed Maina
- Malami alleged that the pension office usually present 258, 000 pensioners for payment monthly, whereas the actual figure of pensioners stood at 141, 762
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, alleged that there was a massive pension fraud operated by the office of the Head of Service between 2010 and 2014.
Malami made this know in a memo he submitted to the Senate Ad-hoc committee investigating the reinstatement and promotion of the former chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pensions, Abdulrasheed Maina.
According to Vanguard, the ad-hoc committee was headed by Chairman, Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Services, Senator Emmanuel Paulker, PDP, Bayelsa Central.
In the memo, Malami given more insight into how a pension syndicate defrauded the country of well over N42 billion between 2010 and 2014.
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According to him, in 2014, the office usually presented 258, 000 pensioners for payment monthly, whereas the actual figure of pensioners stood at 141, 762, noting that in the process, the syndicate defrauded the government of billions of naira amounting to over N42 billion.
Malami noted that as a result of this discovery, many of the officials who were around during the alleged scam, were lobbying to be transferred to other establishments to be away from the radar of investigation, even as he revealed that the pension syndicate had serious links with the villa to the point of plotting to assassinate Maina.
The AGF assured the Senate Committee that despite the controversy around Maina, his office would still go after the pension thieves
He also said the government would vigorously prosecute some of the pending cases against the pension scam suspects.
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According to the AGF, some of the pending cases of the pension thieves that would be pursued very vigorously in the coming year especially the 21-count charge against Dr Sani Teidi , Omo Eric Uduesegbe and others companies before Justice Gabriel Kolawole, the 10- count charge against Abdul Moh’d and 3 other companies before Justice AFA Ademola and 13 other similar cases.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that the former education minister Oby Ezekwesili has slammed the President Muhammadu Buhari administration over poor handling of the scandal of reinstatement of Maina.
In a singular tweet on Friday, December 1, the convener of the Bring Back Our Girls group said the government needed to do only two things.
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Source: Naija.ng