VIDEO: Bold statement from Maina as he demands 5% of N1.6trn recovered pension fund

- Abdulrasheed Maina has demanded for 5% of recovered N1.6trn from the FG

- He said the money was part of his agreement with the Nigerian government

- Maina also insisted that his reinstatement into the federal civil service was based on the approval of the office of the head of service of the federation

Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, embattled former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, has demanded for some percentage from the money he helped the federal government recorvered.

Maina said this in an interview with Channels Television.

He called on the federal government to pay him five per cent of the N1.6 trillion pension fund he and his team recovered for the government.

Maina said his demand is based on an agreement he had with the Head of Service before taking up the job.

Going further, he insisted that his reinstatement into the federal civil service was based on the approval of the office of the head of service of the federation, the federal civil service, and the attorney general of the federation.

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that former education minister Oby Ezekwesili slammed the President Muhammadu Buhari administration over poor handling of the scandal of reinstatement of ex-pensions boss Abdulrasheed Maina.

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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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