• Reveals how FG recalled ex-pension reforms panel chair from exile, seconded him to DSS before reinstating him
Family
members of former chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pension
Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, have threatened to expose the cabal in Aso
Rock behind his travails.
They
also threatened to sue the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC), just as they insisted that their son is not a fraudster but a
messiah who brought reforms into the pension scheme.
At
a news conference in Kaduna, yesterday, spokesman of the family, Aliyu
Maina, accused a “cabal” of being behind ex-PENCOM boss’ travails.
Aliyu, who wondered why government
officials were denying his brother, claimed it was the Department of
State Services (DSS) that gave him protection.
“It is on record that Abdulrasheed
Maina’s reform put to a stop the fraudulent withdrawal of huge sums from
both the Nigerian Pension Board, the Nigerian Police Pension Board,
etc. Perhaps, it is his noble efforts that made him enviable to the
present administration when they came into power to convince him to come
back and assist in its “Change’ agenda.
“Abdulrasheed was, in fact, invited by
this administration and he was promised security to come and clean up
the mess and generate more revenue to government by blocking leakages.
“He succumbed to the present
administration and came back to Nigeria. He has been working with the
DSS for quite some time and was given necessary security.
“There is a letter from the Attorney
General of the Federation where he gave his own legal opinion regarding
the court verdict, which was submitted to the Civil Service Commission
and the head of service respectively. So, one wonders why all the
agencies and various individuals responsible for his return are now
denying,” he stated.
Asked to comment on Maina’s whereabouts,
Aliyu said: “As you know, Abdulrasheed Maina had been a target of attack
in the past; so experience is the best teacher. But, when his security
is guaranteed, he will surface from wherever he is and tell Nigerians
the truth.”
Aliyu, who said the family had sought the
intervention of its lawyers, added that Maina would soon make some
damning revelations. “We have contacted our solicitors, Messrs Mamman
Nasir & Co and instructed them to act appropriately. We equally know
that Abdulrasheed Maina is in possession of so many facts that are
against the cabal and interesting to the Nigerian populace, which he
will disclose soonest. One must ask whether it is an offence for
somebody to serve his fatherland,” he said
The family said Maina inherited the
houses, which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
recently seized in Kaduna. He said the anti-graft agency had ordered the
family members to vacate their residential house in Kaduna.
But the DSS declined comment on the claim
by Maina’s family that it provided him protection. When Daily Sun
contacted, the spokesperson of the service, Mr. Nnana Nnochiri, said:
“Please, I am in a meeting but if it is Maina’s issue you want me to
react to, I want to tell you that I don’t have any comment on the
matter.” And he ended the call.
But the second republic lawmaker, Alhaji
Junaid and chairman of the Kaduna branch of the Nigerian Bar Association
(NBA), Mr. Festus Okoye, said President Buhari and the Federal
Government must come clean on the matter.
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