BREAKING: ‘How I Got Framed Up By Pension Thieves’, Maina Opens Up

Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reform Team (PTPT), has decided to clear air on the corruption allegation on him that prompted his eventual sack from office.

Maina, whose whereabouts have been unknown since President Muhammadu Buhari ordered his dismissal from the civil service, said he is being haunted for his stance against corruption.

He was reinstated under controversial circumstances and promoted to the level of a director in the ministry of
interior.

Speaking in Kaduna on Tuesday, Maina said the investigation ordered by Buhari would expose those involved in pension fraud.

Olajide Fashikun, his media aide said this on his behalf:

“After the biometric exercise, there were 71,000 genuine workers in the police pension office who needed N826million to pay them unlike N5.3billion appropriated for them annually,” he said.

“They were pocketing N4.2billion yearly. They devised several ingenious ways to pull these cash out. They pulled out an average of N300million daily Monday to Friday. There are bank alerts to substantiate these assertions.

“There is a particular person who has 69 cloned versions of his name on the payroll. Bank officials were in cohort.

Names of dead pensioners were ‘exhumed’ from the dead and paid pension. Accounts were created with
fictitious names.”