Maina is still receiving salary weeks after the
president fired him. Tell us a better 'joke'.
Abdulrasheed Maina, former boss of the pension reform task force
who was sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari on October 23, 2017 for defrauding
pensioners, is still receiving his monthly salary.
What’s better, work files are still being dropped on Maina’s desk
as you read this.
Maina’s
lawyer, Mohammed Katu who
appeared before the House of Representatives committee investigating Maina’s
shameful re-emergence and reinstatement at the federal civil service, told
lawmakers that his client has done nothing wrong, which explains why he’s still
getting paid by the State.
"Maina
had to disappear because there was a serious threat to his life," Katu
said. "Maina is still receiving
salaries. 23 files were sent last month in his capacity as acting director (in
the ministry of interior), even while he was absent”.
Another
report says the 222 properties recovered by Maina while he was pension reform
boss, have been re-looted or have developed wings.
“The task force headed by Maina in the course of discharging the
mandate recovered about 222 houses investment, portfolio, properties from
pension suspects in Abuja and other major cities across the country”, said Senator Emmanuel Paulker who is the chairman of the
Senate adhoc committee investigating the disappearance, reemergence and
reinstatement of Maina.
Paulker added that: “Maina recovered assets from pension
looters working with the EFCC, ICPC, DSS, police and paramilitary agency staff
and then EFCC took charge of the recovered assets.
“The total recovered assets seized from alleged pension thieves
were reported to have been allegedly shared by some interest group”.
If
you’ve read a more disgusting piece of news this week, we’d love to hear it. We
have a serious problem in our country when someone who was accused of
defrauding pensioners to the tune of billions of naira back in 2013, found his
way back into his old job in 2017 and now has his name on the nation’s payroll
in perpetuity.
How many more persons who have been ‘sacked’ from the public
service are still receiving salaries? How much has this cost the nation in
dollars?
It
was interesting to watch Head of Service Winifred
Oyo-Ita, Interior Minister Abdulrahman Dambazau and Attorney General Abubakar Malami go all red in the
face during the hearing before lawmakers.
While they have been
deflecting blames or passing the buck over
Maina's reinstatement, it would be worth the while asking these public officers
why the name ‘Maina’ hasn’t been yanked off the payroll weeks after he was
fired and why his desk hasn’t been cleared all this time.
Is
anyone planning to reinstate Maina a second time? You can't even put anything
past these guys.
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