5 Fresh N35bn Pension Scam Uncovered At Head of Service of the Federation

A few months after the dissolution of the Abdulrasheed
Maina-led Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), another
stolen N35 billion pension fund has been uncovered at
the office of the Head of Service of the Federation
(HoSF).
The head of service, Alhaji Bukar Goni, was said to
have hijacked the payment of pensioners even before
the task team was unofficially disbanded.
The media consultant of PRTT, MrOlajide
Fashikun, who disclosed this during a press
conference, expressed shock that the nation's
economic saboteurs who were bent on
destroying the future of retirees resorted to using
falsified documents to defraud government to
the tune of N35bn.
LEADERSHIP FRIDAY gathered that 13 senior civil
servants linked to the fresh scam have been arrested
and are cooling their feet at the Independent Corrupt
Practices and Other Related Offences Commission
(ICPC).
When contacted, the spokesman of the anti-graft
commission, Mr Folu Olamiti,confirmed the arrest: "I
just confirmed that we have carried out a series of
investigations in that office. Specifically, we have been
going in and out of that office and have concluded
investigations and transferred some of those found
wanting to court."
Meanwhile, the media consultant to the PRTT who
cautioned Senator Aloysious Etuk to count him (Maina)
out of his political perils, as neither he nor the task
team has a prior knowledge of the petition to the EFCC
and ICPC entitled "Corrupt enrichment and acceptance
of N50,000,000 bribery, cars, landed property and
industrial equipment leveled against the chairman of
the Senate Committee on Pension and Establishment".
Fashikun, while responding to Senator Etuk's
allegations that he was the brains behind the over-
bloated petition by ShuaibuTeidi's lawyers, challenged
him to show proof of where he was named by the staff
and friends of the pension suspects.
He noted that it is the revealing nature of the petition
which has unraveled too many truths yet untold and is
seemingly too heavy for the senator and a few of his
friends to bear. He called on both anti-graft agencies
to urgently open up investigation.
He said, "The PRTT strongly believes that all this
accusation is in a bid to stave the two anti-graft
agencies from doing what they are statutorily
supposed to do when they open up the investigation.
In fact, this is why Senator Etuk and his colleague in
the committee, BabafemiOjudu, are screaming blue
murder. Even when they cannot eat in their houses,
the cause certainly must be Maina."
While recalling that he was muscled by a combination
of forces that are desperate to sustain and retain the
status quo ante of pension thieves, Maina stated with
equanimity that the senator's ordeals signifies that God
is at work.
He continued: "Why and why now did this come forth
and from the quarters it is coming? It is our firm belief
that facts laid out in the petition are too deep for
anyone who is not involved to have so delivered. This
is why investigative journalism should be upped to dig
and relate the unfolding events for the nation's good.
"The police, ICPC and EFCC should be interested. The
petitioners are alive. They are not hidden. Their names
were revealed with contact details. They should be
invited to help the nation get the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth."

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