N35bn Pension Scam Uncovered At HOSF

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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