As the proposed removal of the Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, continues to generate more controversies as both the Lawmakers and the Presidency continue to disagree over their various positions, the Senate committee investigating the pension administration has again reeled out some of the “sins” of the embattled Deputy Director.
The upper chamber of the National Assembly had earlier in the week ordered the Inspector-Greneral of Police Mohammed Abubakar to arrest and produce Maina before it.
In a chat with newsmen on Wednesday, co-chairman of the committee, Senator Aloysius Etok said the committee received 7,800 petitions which alleged that Maina coordinated the process of mismanagement of pension funds.
Etok, while speaking disclosed that Maina refused to join the committee on the tour of the states during the investigations.
He alleged that Maina instead rushed to the media to paint the Senate in a bad light.
According to him, “We called him to account for his stewardship in all the offices he was overseeing. When we exposed some things, he decided not to appear again. Instead of appearing before the committee, he would go on the media, condemning the entire Senate.
“He said he was not given fair hearing, but when we offered him fair hearing, he refused. He drives two bulletproof cars, in a country where pensioners are hungry. He used N1bn for jamboree in the name of verification abroad. He spends more than N8m every two weeks on personal security.”
“Let him continue to run. We will stop at nothing to make sure he responds to all the issues raised.” Etok said.
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