Maina Received N22m Salary Arrears Before Recall


Abdulrasheed Maina, reinstated Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, was paid N22 million which the Federal Government deemed was due to him for the ‘unfair’ way he was removed from the civil service during the administration of immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan.

Maina was sacked from the civil service in 2013 and was in 2015 placed on the wanted list of International Police (INTERPOL) by the EFCC.

Maina was said to be secretly reinstated into the civil service, with promotion, despite being wanted for alleged corruption.

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Abdurahman Dambazau, Minister of Interior, earlier on Sunday absolved himself of any culpability in Maina’s reinstatement, saying it was done by the Head of Service.

Findings by INDEPENDENT also indicated that Maina was among 260 civil servants, comprising 22 directors on Senior Grade Level 17 (SGL17), 111 Deputy Directors on SGL 16, and 127 Assistant Directors on SGL15 that were redeployed on September 15, 2017, to various ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs).

Maina, it was discovered, was reinstated long before September 15, but this event was kept in the cooler for the right time.

Besides, there are concerns over why his pay jumped that high being that he was not on SGL17 when he was redeployed into the PRTFT with a salary lower than N454, 344 monthly, which is N5, 452,136 per annum, meant for the grade.

The National Incomes, Salaries and Wages Commission which fixes salaries for all government workers has been making arrangements for adjustment of salaries and wages but still retains the old pay structure.

It was understood that his salary was stopped June 2014 with a circular from the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), when it was brought to its notice.

The Federal Civil Service Commission under section 140(b) of the 1979 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has the mandate over the appointment of “any person to an office in the public service of the federation, or dismissal or disciplinary control of officers in the public service of the federation, or any other matter which, in his opinion, affected the public service of the federation.”

The man, who was declared wanted by the police, has not sat for any promotion examination when he was an assistant director.



It has become a curiosity to observers who want to know when he was promoted to a director, and by whom.

The letter directing Maina to resume at the Ministry of Interior was written on the September 15, 2017, and was signed by A.0. Folayan, a Permanent Secretary at the Office of the Head of Service to the Federation.

Interestingly, the letter did not mention Maina or the ministry. Even a copy on the website of the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation did not mention him or the ministry.

The letter with reference number HCFS/CMO/EM/CPA/908/63, conveyed the directive enforcing the ‘redeployment’ with the heading, ‘Posting of the Directorate Level in the Pool of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation’.

It reads: “I am directed to inform you that the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation has approved the deployment of the under listed directorate officers SGL 15-17.

“The posting instruction should also be downloaded www.ohcsf.gov.ng as no hardcopy should be accepted from individuals, please.

“All handing or taking over should be completed on or before Friday, 22nd September, 2017.

“Any disregard to this deployment shall be treated in accordance with provisions of PSR 030301 b.”

Maina’s trouble began in 2012 following an investigation by the Senate into the pension fund.

It was uncovered that a whopping N195 billion could not be accounted for.

After ignoring several summonses, the Senate on December 13, 2012, issued a warrant of arrest against Maina.

The warrant mandated the Inspector-General of Police to arrest and produce him before the Senate Joint Committee on the Investigation of Pension Funds.

The police, on February 1, declared Maina wanted, saying that he had since gone into hiding, making it difficult for them to execute the warrant.

He was an assistant director of Works in the Customs, Immigration and Prisons Pension Office before then.

He was also declared wanted by EFCC in 2013.

A check on the EFCC’s website still bears the information showing Maina is wanted.

By July 21, 2015, he was charged alongside Oronsaye, Osarenkhoe Afe and Fredrick Hamilton Global Services Limited before a Federal High Court on a 24-count charge bordering on procurement fraud and obtaining by false pretense.

While Oronsaye and two others were in court and pleaded not guilty to the charge, Maina was at large.

The EFCC urged anyone with information on Maina’s whereabouts to contact any of its offices in Lagos, Abuja, Gombe, Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugu or report at the nearest police station.

A statement defending the Ministry of Interior was released following public outcry that the ministry may have had a hand in his reinstatement and redeployment.

Ehisienmen Osaigbovo, the Press Secretary to the Minister of Interior, issued a statement which read: “The ex-Chairman of the Presidential Task Force Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, was posted a few days ago to the Ministry of Interior by the Office of the Head of Service in an acting capacity to fill a vacancy created, following the retirement of the director heading the Human Resources Department in the Ministry.

“For the avoidance of doubt, issues relating to discipline, employment, re-engagement, posting, promotion and retirements of federal civil servants are the responsibility of the Federal Civil Service Commission and Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, of which no minister exercises such powers as erroneously expressed in this publication.

“It is understood that Maina’s last posting was with the Ministry of Interior, and that is probably why he was re-posted back to the ministry.

“It is, therefore, improper for anybody to think that a minister could exercise such powers or influence the process of discipline, re-engagement, and deployment of any civil servant to his ministry or any other ministry for that matter.”

Attempts to speak with the spokesperson for the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, did not yield results as she did not respond to enquiries on who authorised the payment and when that was actually made.

But a source in the Accountant General’s office revealed that Maina was paid in excess of N22 million a few months ago before his reinstatement.

She said: “Instructions for his payment was long made and the man had been coming to the office long before now.

“People only got to know because he went to the office at the Interior.”

When asked if evidence of payment could be provided, she declined.

But the issue is causing ripples between OHSF and FCSC.

A highly placed source in FCSC informed INDEPENDENT that the commission was not informed, and that it was supposed to be responsible for handling Maina’s case.

It was the FCSC that ordered the stoppage of his salary.



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Adesina Adegbite, Welfare Secretary, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), said, “It shows a high level of insensitivity and irresponsibility of people in this government.

“If the past administration had declared someone wanted for corruption and he went probably on exile and tried to escape justice and a new administration has come in, rather than have him properly investigated and prosecuted, he is reabsorbed back into the system, it shows that this government is actually paying lip service to the fight against corruption.

“And to me, this is a serious let down to majority of Nigerians who elected the current leadership on the very important campaign promise of coming to fight corruption. I am highly disappointed.”

Malachy Ugwummadu, who was re-elected President of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) at its annual general meeting in Kaduna on Sunday, said, “Although the presumption of innocence under section 36 (5) of the constitution still endures in favour of Maina in relation to the allegations against him, and as far as the law relating to people who submit themselves to investigation and trial is concerned; however, he has become a fugitive, running away from possible trial, and that in itself is an acceptance of guilt.

“In that regard, there is a serious question of integrity regarding his uprightness. Such a person ought not to have been given a clean bill of health to return into the engine room of our bureaucracy where he would further corrupt himself and the system.

“This government should watch it quickly because people are losing confidence as a result of their perception of its anti-corruption campaign as being slanted.”



EFCC Launches Manhunt For Maina



Meanwhile, EFCC has launched a fresh manhunt for Abdulrasheed Maina.

Following news of his reinstatement, the EFCC leadership was said to have convened an emergency meeting on Sunday to strategise on the case.

A source noted that Ibrahim Magu, acting EFCC Chairman, convened a meeting of operatives working on the case.

Following the meeting, operatives were detailed “to smoke out Maina wherever he might be”.

When INDEPENDENT called Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesperson, over the commission’s manhunt for Maina, he said, “He is on the wanted list of the commission”.


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the FCSC at its meeting held on Wednesday 16th August 2017 considered the letter from the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice and the recommendations of the Senior Staff Committee (SSC) of the Ministry of Interior on the disciplinary case against Main a. the FSCS , thereafter, approved the reinstatement of the officer into the service with effect from 21st February, 2013 ( being the date he was earlier dismissed from service.

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Maina Received N22m Salary Arrears Before Recall


Abdulrasheed Maina, reinstated Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, was paid N22 million which the Federal Government deemed was due to him for the ‘unfair’ way he was removed from the civil service during the administration of immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan.

Maina was sacked from the civil service in 2013 and was in 2015 placed on the wanted list of International Police (INTERPOL) by the EFCC.

Maina was said to be secretly reinstated into the civil service, with promotion, despite being wanted for alleged corruption.

Advertisement


Abdurahman Dambazau, Minister of Interior, earlier on Sunday absolved himself of any culpability in Maina’s reinstatement, saying it was done by the Head of Service.

Findings by INDEPENDENT also indicated that Maina was among 260 civil servants, comprising 22 directors on Senior Grade Level 17 (SGL17), 111 Deputy Directors on SGL 16, and 127 Assistant Directors on SGL15 that were redeployed on September 15, 2017, to various ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs).

Maina, it was discovered, was reinstated long before September 15, but this event was kept in the cooler for the right time.

Besides, there are concerns over why his pay jumped that high being that he was not on SGL17 when he was redeployed into the PRTFT with a salary lower than N454, 344 monthly, which is N5, 452,136 per annum, meant for the grade.

The National Incomes, Salaries and Wages Commission which fixes salaries for all government workers has been making arrangements for adjustment of salaries and wages but still retains the old pay structure.

It was understood that his salary was stopped June 2014 with a circular from the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), when it was brought to its notice.

The Federal Civil Service Commission under section 140(b) of the 1979 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has the mandate over the appointment of “any person to an office in the public service of the federation, or dismissal or disciplinary control of officers in the public service of the federation, or any other matter which, in his opinion, affected the public service of the federation.”

The man, who was declared wanted by the police, has not sat for any promotion examination when he was an assistant director.



It has become a curiosity to observers who want to know when he was promoted to a director, and by whom.

The letter directing Maina to resume at the Ministry of Interior was written on the September 15, 2017, and was signed by A.0. Folayan, a Permanent Secretary at the Office of the Head of Service to the Federation.

Interestingly, the letter did not mention Maina or the ministry. Even a copy on the website of the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation did not mention him or the ministry.

The letter with reference number HCFS/CMO/EM/CPA/908/63, conveyed the directive enforcing the ‘redeployment’ with the heading, ‘Posting of the Directorate Level in the Pool of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation’.

It reads: “I am directed to inform you that the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation has approved the deployment of the under listed directorate officers SGL 15-17.

“The posting instruction should also be downloaded www.ohcsf.gov.ng as no hardcopy should be accepted from individuals, please.

“All handing or taking over should be completed on or before Friday, 22nd September, 2017.

“Any disregard to this deployment shall be treated in accordance with provisions of PSR 030301 b.”

Maina’s trouble began in 2012 following an investigation by the Senate into the pension fund.

It was uncovered that a whopping N195 billion could not be accounted for.

After ignoring several summonses, the Senate on December 13, 2012, issued a warrant of arrest against Maina.

The warrant mandated the Inspector-General of Police to arrest and produce him before the Senate Joint Committee on the Investigation of Pension Funds.

The police, on February 1, declared Maina wanted, saying that he had since gone into hiding, making it difficult for them to execute the warrant.

He was an assistant director of Works in the Customs, Immigration and Prisons Pension Office before then.

He was also declared wanted by EFCC in 2013.

A check on the EFCC’s website still bears the information showing Maina is wanted.

By July 21, 2015, he was charged alongside Oronsaye, Osarenkhoe Afe and Fredrick Hamilton Global Services Limited before a Federal High Court on a 24-count charge bordering on procurement fraud and obtaining by false pretense.

While Oronsaye and two others were in court and pleaded not guilty to the charge, Maina was at large.

The EFCC urged anyone with information on Maina’s whereabouts to contact any of its offices in Lagos, Abuja, Gombe, Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugu or report at the nearest police station.

A statement defending the Ministry of Interior was released following public outcry that the ministry may have had a hand in his reinstatement and redeployment.

Ehisienmen Osaigbovo, the Press Secretary to the Minister of Interior, issued a statement which read: “The ex-Chairman of the Presidential Task Force Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, was posted a few days ago to the Ministry of Interior by the Office of the Head of Service in an acting capacity to fill a vacancy created, following the retirement of the director heading the Human Resources Department in the Ministry.

“For the avoidance of doubt, issues relating to discipline, employment, re-engagement, posting, promotion and retirements of federal civil servants are the responsibility of the Federal Civil Service Commission and Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, of which no minister exercises such powers as erroneously expressed in this publication.

“It is understood that Maina’s last posting was with the Ministry of Interior, and that is probably why he was re-posted back to the ministry.

“It is, therefore, improper for anybody to think that a minister could exercise such powers or influence the process of discipline, re-engagement, and deployment of any civil servant to his ministry or any other ministry for that matter.”

Attempts to speak with the spokesperson for the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, did not yield results as she did not respond to enquiries on who authorised the payment and when that was actually made.

But a source in the Accountant General’s office revealed that Maina was paid in excess of N22 million a few months ago before his reinstatement.

She said: “Instructions for his payment was long made and the man had been coming to the office long before now.

“People only got to know because he went to the office at the Interior.”

When asked if evidence of payment could be provided, she declined.

But the issue is causing ripples between OHSF and FCSC.

A highly placed source in FCSC informed INDEPENDENT that the commission was not informed, and that it was supposed to be responsible for handling Maina’s case.

It was the FCSC that ordered the stoppage of his salary.



Lawyers Kick



Adesina Adegbite, Welfare Secretary, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), said, “It shows a high level of insensitivity and irresponsibility of people in this government.

“If the past administration had declared someone wanted for corruption and he went probably on exile and tried to escape justice and a new administration has come in, rather than have him properly investigated and prosecuted, he is reabsorbed back into the system, it shows that this government is actually paying lip service to the fight against corruption.

“And to me, this is a serious let down to majority of Nigerians who elected the current leadership on the very important campaign promise of coming to fight corruption. I am highly disappointed.”

Malachy Ugwummadu, who was re-elected President of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) at its annual general meeting in Kaduna on Sunday, said, “Although the presumption of innocence under section 36 (5) of the constitution still endures in favour of Maina in relation to the allegations against him, and as far as the law relating to people who submit themselves to investigation and trial is concerned; however, he has become a fugitive, running away from possible trial, and that in itself is an acceptance of guilt.

“In that regard, there is a serious question of integrity regarding his uprightness. Such a person ought not to have been given a clean bill of health to return into the engine room of our bureaucracy where he would further corrupt himself and the system.

“This government should watch it quickly because people are losing confidence as a result of their perception of its anti-corruption campaign as being slanted.”



EFCC Launches Manhunt For Maina



Meanwhile, EFCC has launched a fresh manhunt for Abdulrasheed Maina.

Following news of his reinstatement, the EFCC leadership was said to have convened an emergency meeting on Sunday to strategise on the case.

A source noted that Ibrahim Magu, acting EFCC Chairman, convened a meeting of operatives working on the case.

Following the meeting, operatives were detailed “to smoke out Maina wherever he might be”.

When INDEPENDENT called Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesperson, over the commission’s manhunt for Maina, he said, “He is on the wanted list of the commission”.


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And someone would quote this epistle without any meaningful CONTRIBUTION, just same way someone might quote me without saying any NEW thing. SMH.

Clerverly aka ngeneukwenu Ikpummiri etc
come here and kneel down

during goodluck Jonathan will hear of gate up and down, but now know body is talking. no more open letter, rally, protest. those warriors of rule of law in the past administrators have loss their voice, those God of men abi men of God that saw doom have gone into hiding. u have to pay a man for a job well done, that is y somebody from the oba region who is a former governor that import a white woman as the only achievement has been active on the media of recent to get his reward also.

Chai!!! this one Na real one chance government o. There is no hope for the common man.
Buhari and Apc are all disgrace to this Sweet word called "CHANGE "
Apc should change their party slogan from change to "One chance ".

My take on this matter is that Maina has info that could put some powerful people in trouble. This's why he was asked to go underground.

These powerful men now decided to compensate him for his co-operation.

Oh he was not only recalled but also paid his arrears and entitlements for period he was sacked till now? It is finished...

It's rilly finished my brother. Nigeria enter real one chance under Buhari

not siding GEJ (the man had his faults), but if you look at the way Maina's case was handled when the allegations of corruption was levelled against him, it was clear to see how the 'system' worked... processes were followed, appropriate directives given, proper actions taken without the presidency saying a word or making a big deal of saying it was 'fighting corruption' despite the fact that Maina was a direct appointment by the presidency at the time...


now juxtapose the above with the secrecy & cunning of the present government that claims to be fighting corruption...

after backdoor reinstatement, they are now showboating their anti-corruption horns for the gullible ones. making a show of seizing houses & marking buildings...


for those in the inner circle of things, we know that some of the houses marked by EFCC recently were already placed under lock & key by the previous government without making noise.

clowns in power...

GetUmad:

And someone would quote this epistle without any meaningful CONTRIBUTION, just same way someone might quote me without saying any NEW thing. SMH.

Konkobility

and buhari refused to pay ASUU

na wao, dat is to say em money dey 2017 budget be dat o.

Buhari u ve disappointed the good people of this country. Shame on u. Mr integrity my foot.

I just dey laff.


When i told these zombies that Buhari is an armed robber they all didn't listen. They were all busy screaming "sai baba" and "intergrity".

Lo and behold the real buhari has been unveiled and reality is hitting them hard on their faces like Anthony joshua's punches.

Am wondering how many Old Pensioners these N22million would have settled. And they used it to settle a man that stole their pensions.
Nigeria is full of ironies.

A shameless man that lied under oath can never be a man of integrity.
Buhari's corruption stinks like that of anus of his cows .