Pension Scam: Who Is Afraid Of Maina?
Comrade Okpokwu Ogenyi,

For some time now, the former embattled Chairman Pension Reform Task Force Abdulrasheed Maina has been in the news in a manner that suggests vested interests are out to silence him by all means, condemning him as guilty without listening to his side of the story.

It is on record that before Maina was put to flight by combination of factors, he had told the whole world via different media how he had saved over N200 billion. The task force he chaired had representatives from the Office of Head of Service of the Federation, the Police, the EFCC, ICPC, Retirees Association and other Agencies of government.

Maina could not have misappropriated funds without the knowledge of the others and their active collaboration if indeed he is guilty! It is instructive to note that when Maina came under the search light of the Senate, he accused the Chairman of the committee carrying out the investigation of demanding a humongous sum as bribe, that the matter was swept under the carpet and Nigerians with their usual short attention span forgot the matter.

Monies recovered could not have been tempered by him because it went straight to the Treasury and only the Finance Minister can access it. The young man’s zeal and passion for the job made him to mind boggling discoveries of scam involving the high and mighty who are responsible for his present predicament, deploying their immense illegally gotten resources to accuse, prosecute, judge and sentence Maina as guilty of financial scam using willing media and hack writers to mislead public opinion. When PMB went to Abu Dhabi for the World Future Energy Summit recently, he also signed agreements on repatriation of looted funds stashed in U.A.E. by Nigerians and it went viral that Maina is one of the targets! In some of today’s papers there are more sponsored articles about Maina imminent arrest by INTERPOL which has purportedly given a “Red Alert” for his arrest anywhere in the world over his role in the N2.1billion (another says N2billion) Pension Scam.

In most developed or saner climes, Maina would be wooed by the State to serve as a Principal State Witness based on his intimate knowledge of the scam and the involvement of highly influential Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and the top echelon of the Civil Service. The orchestrated report about Maina’s Eminate arrest is a mere propaganda. Maina would have his day in court one day and the public would be wiser for it.

His accusers of today may well turn out to be guilty!

A forensic Historian and PR Expert based in Abuja.
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