EFCC finds N800m in civil servant’s
account
January 25, 2011
News
By EMMAN   OVUAKPORIE
ABUJA —THE Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC, operatives
have found over N800 million in the
account of a Deputy Director in the
Ministry of Transport, Mrs Phiana Chidi,
which was believed to be proceeds from
pension funds that she once managed in
the Office of the Head of Civil Service of
the Federation, OHCSF, before she was
transferred.

It was reliably gathered, yesterday, that
the Deputy Director who was
apprehended by the agency ’s
operatives on Saturday is already
spilling the beans during interrogations.

It was learnt that the suspect kept the
money which was in naira and dollars
denominations in one of the old
generation banks. In one of the
accounts, she had $2 million, and  N500
million in another account, using Pam
Investments Ltd as front while she was
the sole signatory to both accounts.
Before Chidi was moved to the
Transport Ministry, she was the Deputy
Director, Finance and Administration,
managing the pension scheme under
the OHCSF

It was also alleged that Chidi awarded
and signed payments of fictitious
contracts, pensioners ’ stipends, bogus
and spurious allowances to staff worth
billions without following due process.
It would be recalled that the Head of
Service, HOS, Prof. Oladapo Afolabi, had
two weeks ago visited the chairman of
the anti-graft agency, Mrs Farida Waziri
and pleaded that new pensioners had
graduated into the pension scheme and
her assistance was urgently needed to
help sanitise the scheme.

He had explained that during his
predecessor ’s reign, the commission
helped his office to recover over N1.2
billion monthly and pleaded that “as we
enroll new pensioners please assist us
with those your operatives that did the
wonderful job in the past. ”
Waziri had then vowed to help fish out
any culprit as she was ready to release
her operatives to come to their rescue.

According to the source the outcome of
that promise is the arrest of Chidi last
week Saturday over alleged
misappropriation of pensioners ’ money.

The source further explained that “this
is just a tip of the iceberg as more civil
servants who built mansions in the
Federal Capital Territory without the
necessary income to back it up will soon
start singing different tunes as we have
placed them under our watch list. ”

When contacted, Head, Media and
Publicity, Mr Femi Babafemi confirmed
that Mrs Chidi was actually in the
custody of the agency.

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I have said it, these civil servants are the ones killing this country.
EFCC would do well to launch an operation to catch 10,000 of them and this country will change.

It is so true - Nigerian leaders are just a mere reflection of their followers - fact


where does the cleansing start

Ooh yes! Fela u been don sing before~

~ authority people dem go dey steal,
~pen get power, gun no get~
~if gun steal 50 thousand nairaa, pen go steal, (the like sum above).

You know sometimes I imagine the songs abami eda could have sang if he were alive with all that has happened & still happening in Nigeria?

This is the type of corruption some of us were describing. This is not your $100,000-in-a-freezer, bribe-me-with-a-superbowl-ticket corruption. . .

In one of the accounts, she had $2 million, and  N500 million in another account,

. . . and she's just a director level civil servant, not even a minister or an elected politician.

How will my people develop when one civil servant can steal that much money and brazenly so?

Mcheeeeeeew, chicken change!





NB: watch out for d tribal hyenas as dey tear one another over some bones soon.

solihu:

Ooh yes! Fela u been don sing before~

~ authority people dem go dey steal,
~pen get power, gun no get~
~if gun steal 50 thousand nairaa, pen go steal, (the like sum above).

You know sometimes I imagine the songs abami eda could have sang if he were alive with all that has happened & still happening in Nigeria?

I wonder too - what titles of song would be

abi, this is the same civil service that refused to take aptitude tests that time. So they just like to chop no limits.

If she doesn't get a severe sentence I'll know the EFCC can never be serious under Waziri.

Wow, Another Cecilia Ibru, this time in the public sector. Nigerian women are proving that what a man can do, a woman can do better. See thief abeg

Kilode?!:

This is the type of corruption some of us were describing. This is not your $100,000-in-a-freezer, bribe-me-with-a-superbowl-ticket corruption. . .


. . . and she's just a director level civil servant, not even a minister or an elected politician.

How will my people develop when one civil servant can steal that much money and brazenly so?

By sentencing such people to death by hanging, infact more, Our public servants especially directors and perm secs are rogues

later they'll claim they don't have enough money to pay the pensioners on time.

this is old gist.
everyone knows that federal and state civil services are the most corrupt agencies (parasatals) in Nigeria without exception.
a lawyer who deals with one of the ministries was telling me of deputy directors who own estates.
meanwhile there attitude to work is shameful to say the least.
go for weekend on thursday afternoons and return on monday afternoon or Tuesday (if a director and above).
We have not even talked about the over bloated workforce.
one person opening a file, another signing it and another passing it to the next room.
the political will needed to reform civil service in this country is almost impossible to muster.

At last, we are beginning to get it right. Do you know that if civil servant don't aid the politicians that are done of looting money, their looting mission will never come to fulfilment?

At last, we are beginning to get it right. Do you know that if civil servant don't aid the politicians that are fond of looting money, their looting mission will never come to fulfilment?