EMBATTLED former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina has denied all the accusations of corruption and theft against him.

Speaking with Ordinary Ahmed Isah, the popular radio presenter, and human rights advocate, on the telephone in Abuja, Mr Maina claimed that rather than misappropriate funds, he has helped the federal government save billions of Naira by exposing leakages and monumental fraud in the pension scheme.

According to him, the genesis of his troubles started when he refused to compromise with “others” to defraud the system.

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He claimed that investigations by his former team discovered monumental fraud in the Police pension scheme, including about N300million illegal daily deductions and N1billion stolen monthly.

Mr. Maina wondered why the people he reported for the fraud discovered by his team have not been questioned or arrested.

He claimed that the former office he occupied never had a budget appropriated to it to operate.

According to Mr Maina, he had helped the government reclaim and save over N282 billion.

The said money domiciled with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) was reclaimed under the last PDP administration when current Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was the Governor of CBN and Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was the Minister of Finance.

To silence him, he claimed that there were assassination attempts on his life, including

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