Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reform Team (PTPT), has broken his silence on the allegations levelled against him.

Maina, whose whereabouts have been unknown since President Muhammadu Buhari ordered his dismissal from the civil service, said he is being haunted for his stance against corruption.

He was reinstated under controversial circumstances and promoted to the level of a director in the ministry of interior.

Speaking in Kaduna on Tuesday, Maina said the investigation ordered by Buhari would expose those involved in pension fraud.

He spoke through Olajide Fashikun, his media aide.

“After the biometric exercise, there were 71,000 genuine workers in the police pension office who needed N826million to pay them unlike N5.3billion appropriated for them annually,” he said.

“They were pocketing N4.2billion yearly. They devised several ingenious ways to pull these cash out. They pulled out an average of N300million daily Monday to Friday. There are bank alerts to substantiate these assertions.

“There is a particular person who has 69 cloned versions of his name on the payroll. Bank officials were in cohort. Names of dead pensioners were ‘exhumed’ and people were paid. Accounts were created with fictitious names.

“Between the office of the head of service and the police pension office, a leakage of N5.32 billion per month was stopped. This is what civil servants steal monthly in the two offices out of the 99 pension offices in the country.

Fourty three persons were arrested and handed over to the EFCC to prosecute while 222 houses were seized from them.”

Fashikun said after Maina was “driven into exile”, N35billion was stolen in the office of the head of service.

“In the current media trial where all manners of stories have been published, there has been a lot of distortion of facts and sometimes outright blackmail, all in an attempt to paint Maina black like Lucifer,” he said.

“After the biometric exercise, there were 71,000 genuine workers in the police pension office who needed N826million to pay them unlike N5.3billion appropriated for them annually. They were pocketing N4.2billion yearly.

“They devised several ingenious ways to pull these cash out. They pulled out an average of N300million daily Monday to Friday. There are bank alerts to substantiate these assertions.

“There has been a lot of deliberate cover-up in a well-written script to give Maina a bad name. Emerging evidence has shown that Maina is just a victim of corruption fighting back. The then senate committee, in a bid to crucify Maina, did the hatchet job when they told Nigerians that he stole N195billion.

“Maina was just a victim of a high power play of some powerful individuals in high places. So, for three years, Maina suffered ‘media trial’, where he was found guilty several times on the pages of newspapers.”

http://newswirengr.com/2017/10/31/they-were-pocketing-n4-2billion-yearly-abdulrasheed-maina-drops-names-from-hiding/

Come out and face your trials, then mention the name of this other people openly in court. How long will he hide from justice

This man matter don tire person abeg

Keep hiding and be running your mouth.Smart crook.

Buhari should cooperate with this guy and win some points in fighting corruption.

i pity our nation's future....Thieves every where

Hmm...

...and when asked by the reporter why Maina was on the run since he was innocent, his aide said it was because Maina's life was in danger.

When the reporter reminded Maina's aide that maina resumed work and settled down to normal life without any fear of his life been in danger until the buhari called for his sack, the aide lost his voice.

adem30:
Buhari should cooperate with this guy and win some points in fighting corruption.

Cooperate with a fugitive criminal as how?

Whn i knew Maina is innocent was whn Jonathan Sacked him, anybody GEJ sacked for corruption jst knw the person is innocent and not playing along with them.

...the reporter also suggested that Maina probably started off with good intentions but was somewhere along the line caught up himself in the sleaze.

THIS IDIOT SUPPOSE TO BE LOCKED UP IN JAIL BY NOW. HE SHOULD JUST KEEP RUNNING BEFORE HAND WILL TOUCH HIM.

Pierocash:
Whn i knew Maina is innocent was whn Jonathan Sacked him, anybody GEJ sacked for corruption jst knw the person is innocent and not playing along with them.

So why did Buhari sack him again? Why did all government officials involved one way or the other in his reinstatement falling over themselves to deny their involvement? Why is Buhari's attack dogs the EFCC suddenly frantically throwing all spanner in the works to nail Maina?

adem30:
Buhari should cooperate with this guy and win some points in fighting corruption.

Which buhari are you talking about
Because the one in aso rock is more corrupt than corruption

GEJ and his croonies milked this country no be small..

Maina should name them all with valid documents to back up his claims.
Now I see why Orubebe was making threats. They know what they did.

nigeria is a failed state

when puplic opinion, ably swayed by a corrupt press is against, you nah sorry be your name. hadji maina, may God see you through this trying time.

when puplic opinion, abbly swayed by a corrupt press is against you, nah sorry be your name. hadji maina. may God see you through this trying time.

Alariiwo:
GEJ and his croonies milked this country no be small..

Maina should name them all with valid documents to back up his claims.
Now I see why Orubebe was making threats. They know what they did.

Hempty SKU.l is Wat u re

This fugitive should come out of hiding that's if he's not being kept of the radar by the security agencies and tell us how much he pocketed or contributed to APC 2015 campaigns from the billions stolen from pension funds.

And by the way when will shekau gets a pardon from this scandalous presidency

Useless and deceptive government.

Where are the so called names. Heading does not correspond with story.
Fake news.

HoluwarTohbar:
...and when asked by the reporter why Maina was on the run since he was innocent, his aide said it was because Maina's life was in danger.

When the reporter reminded Maina's aide that maina resumed work and settled down to normal life without any fear of his life been in danger until the buhari called for his sack, the aide lost his voice.

It is called, speechless

HoluwarTohbar:
So why did Buhari sack him again? Why did all government officials involved one way or the other in his reinstatement falling over themselves to deny their involvement? Why is Buhari's attack dogs the EFCC suddenly frantically throwing all spanner in the works to nail Maina?

Dnt bring in Buhari, he only did what any reasonable leader wil do. Once u have an image to protect u Have to do away with anybody with quetions to answer.

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Alariiwo:
GEJ and his croonies milked this country no be small..

Maina should name them all with valid documents to back up his claims.
Now I see why Orubebe was making threats. They know what they did.

yet bubu the almighty dullard reinstated him.
Are you okay?

Pierocash:

Dnt bring in Buhari, he only did what any reasonable leader wil do. Once u have an image to protect u Have to do away with anybody with quetions to answer.

But we should bring in a past Jonathan that didn't have image to protect for sacking him?

How come nobody wants to listen to what this man is saying.

Even if it's all lie, will investigation no reveal it ?

I think EFCC shld start investigating all this his allegations & @ d same tym hunting for him for more detail

I just feel ''plea bargaining'' is at play here. Maybe Maina promised to divulge information about how pension scam happened in return for re-instatement. Not until informations come out about the details of the loots so far recovered before we will begin to understand many things. We have seen cases in advanced countries where known criminals were either let go or with little punishment in exchange for assistance to prosecute and convict many other bigger criminals.

Pierocash:

Dnt bring in Buhari, he only did what any reasonable leader wil do. Once u have an image to protect u Have to do away with anybody with quetions to answer.

OK. But when GEJ sacked him, he sacked him because he Maina didnt cooperate with him according to you. Why do I even dignify you with a response seeing that you are just a blind supporter of evil?

In Nigeria just don't beleive anything that you're not directly involved in! The fact is that nobody that is not involved in this know whether Maina is guilty or not, but what we can say authoritatively as a common man is that some powerful people are playing politics with the lives of millions of Nigerians and some of them, the powerful people, will end up killing each other somehow

adem30:
Buhari should cooperate with this guy and win some points in fighting corruption.

He was already cooperating with so much that he reinstated him na ..You zombies are something else

If the issue had not arise about his appointment in the first place, he won't be pointing fingers now... If you were actually innocent you won't be in hiding, you remind me of a game we played when we were younger "police and theif" The theif was always in hiding.