shejane: While some hustlers are languishing in prison for stealing garri, real criminals are cruising life

Ders God in evrytin we do## I believe that so much

Renegade147: . What does the constitution says about corrupt practices or corrupt officials.

bornagain1509:
why do we only complain when their are mediums with which this people can be punished?

Pension Scam: How the Senate betrayed Nigerians Premium Times-2 years ago
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Senate President, David Mark, may have inadvertently placed a curse on some of his colleagues in the upper legislative chamber.

Early in the year, at the commencement of the probe into pension funds administration by the Senate, Mr. Mark declared that “pension fund administrators pilfering funds meant to pay pensioners are accumulating “blood money.”

Represented by Victor Ndoma-Egba, the Senate leader, he lamented that many people had gotten rich on “blood money while pensioners were left suffering and dying.

Again, a few weeks ago, at the presentation of the report of the joint committee on public service and establishment and state and local government administration, which conducted the probe, Mr. Mark declared, “for any living human being to have stolen the money of those who have laboured for this country, I think it is only God who can decide their fate.”

“But, as human beings, we have just made our recommendations and hope that the Almighty God will see them to hell,” Mr. Mark concluded.

At that session where recommendations of the committee, headed by Aloysius Etok, were adopted by the Senate, Mr. Ndoma-Egba, who gave example of his own father who was denied lawful pension amounting to N2 million, also rained curses on pension funds thieves.

“That is blood money and blood money is cursed money, not only on them but on their children’s children; it is a curse on them no matter what they think,” he declared.

However, Mr. Mark and Mr. Ndoma-Egba might have been raining curses on some members of the Senate joint committee who have now been accused of collecting billions from pension fund ‘thieves’ to forestall their prosecution and stop further investigations into the mindless pillage of funds meant for the payment of pensioners.

A tainted committee

Sani Shuaibu Teidi, former director of pension in the office of the Head of Service of the Federation, who is being prosecuted along with 31 others, alleged that Mr. Etok and other members of the committee collected a bribe of N3 billion from him.

In statements he made to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Teidi said he paid the money to Mr. Etok in foreign currency and that the bribe was meant to prevent their prosecution. He told investigators that he equally bribed Farida Waziri, former chairman of the EFCC.

Curiously, nothing was said about that allegation at the session of the Senate that adopted the report of the discredited committee. After the allegations were publicly made, Ike Ekweremadu, deputy Senate President, at a session, set up a committee to look into them with a mandate to report its findings within two weeks. Nothing has been heard about that committee since then.

Also, Abdulrasheed Maina, chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) alleged that Mr. Etok demanded from him a bribe of $100,000 dollars for each of the 18 members of the committee. Although Mr. Maina has since been pressured to offer a denial, he had revealed in confidence on the day the demand was made that certain key members of the panel asked for the bribe.

Mr. Maina said he declined giving the bribe on the advice of a security chief who alerted him that once he gave the bribe, he would be subsequently blackmailed into giving heavier bribes.

A compromised report

Mr. Etok has publicly denied both allegations. However, the conduct of the committee’s hearing into the fraud in pension administration and the report it presented to the Senate last week, among other things, are indications that the committee’s work may have been compromised and, indeed, orchestrated from the beginning for the purpose of discrediting the Maina-led task team and its work.

First, for years, while pensioners suffered and even died roaming the streets of Abuja while waiting for their pensions, the Senate did nothing. For years, aged pensioners turned the corridors and underneath the staircases of the Complex housing the office of the Head of Service to their homes; yet, nothing was done by the Senate.

However, shortly after the EFCC started the prosecution of Mr. Teidi and others, as well as arrested several senior civil servants, including a serving permanent secretary for stealing billions of naira from the pension funds, the Senate suddenly got interested in the plight of pensioners.

For a discerning follower of the pension scam, a careful perusal of the report of the Etok-led panel immediately reveals that the primary goal of the committee’s work appears to have been to discredit the pension task team and disband it.

More than 90 percent of the 107-page report deals with only the pension offices handled by Maina — Police, Head of Service and the Customs, Immigration, Prisons Pension offices.

In its report, in the attempt to achieve its purpose, many of the observations of the committee are disjointed, contradictory and sometimes downright ridiculous.

The committee did make some pertinent findings concerning goings on in the pension office of the head of service.

This includes the fact that “there is syndicated and institutionalised corruption, fraud and embezzlement in the administration of the payment of pensioners and administration of pension funds”.

The committee also determined that officials of the pension office “enrolled as pensioners several persons who had not served in the public service with forged and false documentations”

“The officials in the department use numerous fake and pseudo names in the pension payroll and banks to siphon monthly pension funds to their private use” the report declared.

The committee also noted that quarterly verification exercises on which it said the department spent N256 million every year “were only a facade to fulfill all righteousness and a decoy to expend the funds appropriated for that purpose.”

Discrediting the task team

However, the report goes on to destroy the work of the task team which came to address and rectify all the anomalies. In the process, the committee made allegations and claims against the team, which documents in the possession of icirnigeria.org contradict.

In spite of its earlier observation that yearly verification exercise were carried out to siphon money, the committee quarreled with the team’s conduct of a biometric capturing exercise which has forever removed the necessity for any further verification.

Through the biometric exercise, the team has come up with smart cards for every pensioner with which they can be verified without going to queue for hours unnecessarily.

The report alleged that the team conducted another biometric exercise in spite of the fact that the pension office had already conducted up to 90 per cent of a similar exercise for the year at the cost of N234 million.

But the committee was aware that in truth the pension office under Mr. Teidi did not have any biometric data on pensioners and even if it had could not have used it because of the fraud it was perpetrating.

The committee equally falsely alleged that the team embarked on the biometrics without data or files from the pension office, only relying on documents submitted by pensioners. Due to this, the report further alleged that the names of aged pensioners whose documents had been lost or misplaced were removed from the pension payroll.

“The task team therefore declared aged pensioners (some of whom have received their pension for up to 20 years) as ghost pensioners thereby removing 71,133 names of pensioners from the payroll and reducing the list of pensioners from 141,790 to 70,657.’

However, documents in the possession of our reporters, which were also made available to the Senate joint committee, show that this is a deliberate falsification of facts. The over 71,000 names removed from the payroll are the same fake and ghost pensioners that the committee acknowledge exist in its findings.

The task team went to the 36 states of the federation but many of the fake pensioners stayed away because the team went with security officials. A few of the ghost pensioners were actually arrested.
It is also absolutely false that the team went on the exercise with no data because it had retrieved all the over 141,000 files of names of persons claimed to be pensioners. Working with these files, the team discovered a lot of cloned names, repetitions and doctored documents. In many cases, names of dead people were brought into files of the living and paid pension while names from living files were also duplicated in the files of dead people so they could be paid death benefits. Officials of the pension office colluded with bank officials to collect the money thereafter. To do this, they used under-age youths, teachers and jobless persons in several states.

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pobosky20: under GEJ,no more long queues at petrol stations during festive periods. GEJ 2015!!! GEJ far better than Buhari!!

eaglechild: They have all been "flushed out".

But the clear and present danger is that the most corrupt coalition between a frog eyed looting midget and an asthenic jihadist that wants to sieze power at all cost and this we must resist.

egift:

Whatever drug they are giving in the Coven and TAN meeting is very Radioactive. I mean how can the stealing of Trillions of Naira be a "watery" stealing?

Sincere9gerian: APC cannot win election on the back of WICKED LIES
It was the GEJ govt that exposed the massive fraud in the pension system, dating back to the OBJ govt. The pension thieves are now being prosecuted by the EFCC

Firefire:
My good friend egift. How business? I challenge you to publish evidence of the stealing done by Jonathan.

Footlocker: Do you a single drop of evidence of GEJ stealing? Do you no there's little or no freedom AFTER irresponsible comments such as this in china!

Booty4me: Haba guys since ive been trying to be 1st to
comment. Make una help me na. Leave d next
thread 4me na G

odun4love: ;I smell e-war...........!!!





The president is good..... But bad people surround him....

egift:

- Jonathan stole and spent N1.8 trillion in paying fuel subsidies in 2011, when less than 400 billion was approved in the budget.
- NNPC under Jonathan, in less than 3yrs sold crude oil for a total of $49 billion and did not remit it to federation account as required by law. When challenged, they listed how they spent the money, returned some, yet till date about $20billion is still not accounted for. (In case you forgot, the law asked them to sell and remit and not to keep and spend). Also know that why Jonathan did not have the money remitted is that it will require the FEC (Presidency and Governors) to agree before money can be withdrawn from the Federation account.
- Jonathan and his boys stole Police Pension funds, till date nobody is in jail.
- Jonathan through immigration department milked unemployed Nigerian Youths and killed 17. Till date nobody is in jail.

The list goes on.

Sincere9gerian: Pension thieves undergoing prosecution due to the work of the Maina led Pension Task Force http://www.punchng.com/news/pension-thieves-threaten-our-witnesses-efcc/
http://www.theheraldng.com/n20-billion-fraud-pension-thieves-cashed-400-cheques-one-day-efcc/
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/n32bn-pension-fund-we-can-no-longer-trust-justice-talba-efcc/
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/protest-efcc-arraigns-12-alleged-pension-fraudsters/

J12: Can You Name a Previous Nigerian President Who Wasn't An Ally of Corruption?

cust0mized13: Jonathan ma lo si ewon at last ni

egift:

How many of them has Jonathan prosecuted and put behind bars?

Sincere9gerian: Pension thieves undergoing prosecution due to the work of the Maina led Pension Task Force http://www.punchng.com/news/pension-thieves-threaten-our-witnesses-efcc/
http://www.theheraldng.com/n20-billion-fraud-pension-thieves-cashed-400-cheques-one-day-efcc/
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/n32bn-pension-fund-we-can-no-longer-trust-justice-talba-efcc/
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/protest-efcc-arraigns-12-alleged-pension-fraudsters/

barcanista: ABDULRASHEED MAINA


Fmr Head of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms. Appointed by Jonathan. His job was to unearth and prosecute those that dipped their hands into Police Pension Fund. In twist of event, Maina was alleged to have participated in N195 billion pension fraud. He was indicted by the Senate, recommended for sack and Prosecution but Jonathan dragged and only sacked him two months later. As at today, Maina hasn't been convicted.

PRINCESS STELLA ODUA


Former Minister of Aviation that was alleged to have allocated N255 million for the purchase of 2 BMW Cars without appropriation in what was the biggest corruption scandal in Jonathan's cabinet. She was indicted by the Senate and the Presidential Committee setup to investigate her. After a while, she was relieved of her Job and walks as a free woman. NO PROSECUTION by any of the concerned Agencies.

FEMI FANI KAYODE


Fmr Aviation Minister, whose trial on alleged looting of N250m was instituted by the Yar Adua Government and pursued. He was "cleared" of wrong doing few months after he defected to PDP (Jonathan's Camp)

CHIEF OLABODE GEORGE



Chairman of the NPA between 2001 and 2003 was Convicted in 2009 for contract splitting that amounts to N2b. He served his term. Went to Appeal Court to Upturn the decision but failed. "Miraculously" the supreme court in December 2013 upturned the decision "because the offence had not become a criminal offence as at the time the alleged incident took place."

MOHAMMED ABACHA
Son of Late Maximum Ruler Sani Abacha. Abacha's family looted the treasury without mercy. Millions of Dollars was recovered and more unearthed. Mohammed was facing corruption charges instituted by the Obasanjo regime, however, Our BENEVOLENT President withrew the charges from the court. Mohammed is a chieftain of the PDP and a Governorship Aspirant under the PDP.


All the Above listed are allies of the President and has endorsed his 2nd Term bid

Jonathan's Quotes:
Corruption is not Nigeria's number one problem
Stealing is Not Corruption

Itoroetti: op ,maybe u have little problem with comprehension and understanding.
was there any court of law that indicted odua?
on what ground was she corrupt?have they traced any illegal money to her account?
bode george was sent to jail and he is back,has he been appointed a minister or given any portfolio by the FG?
Why do u always love to display ur ignorance in an open market?
why dont u talk about ur certified certificate forgerer- tinubu and his corrupt emir-buhari?
what is ur problem with GEJ?

englishmart: Opportunity comes but once.

I don't think Jonathan has stolen any Nigerian naira.

Footlocker: The judiciary is an independent arm of government! The executive have no authority over the decisions made there! If your papa slap your mamma! I sure say you go blame JONA

Footlocker: The judiciary is an independent arm of government! The executive have no authority over the decisions made there! If your papa slap your mamma! I sure say you go blame JONA