127m alleged refund, a blackmail – Pension Taskforce
On May 10, 2012 · In News
By EMMA UJAH & OKEY NDIRIBEN
ABUJA – The Pension Reforms Task Team, PRTT, has denied being asked by the Office of Auditor-General of the Federation, OAuGF, to refund N127 million alleged to have been wrongly spent, claiming that it was part of a blackmail by the pension thieves from whom over N181 billion has been recovered.
PRTT also said in a statement in Abuja, yesterday, that its Chairman, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, has not received any audit query from the of Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation.
The statement by it spokesman, Mr. Hassan Salisu, it said: “The Pension Task Force is not aware and has not received any query from the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation with regard to any financial wrong doings”.
According to the team, the cabal that was stealing pension funds before Mr. Maina and his group were asked to clean up the system has been blackmailing it.
“The query in question might be part of the series of blackmail organized by the pension thieves and their collaborators in service against the Pension Task Force”, it said.
The Task Force said it recovered N181 billion public funds that should have gone to private pockets and that it spent less than 0.001 per cent of the recovered funds in the course of its assignment and wondered why questions were being asked.
The statement added that, “The Pension Task Team saved and recovered over N181 billion and instead of dwelling on the amount saved and ensure that such is not repeated, some partners to the looters are busy asking questions on an amount less than 0.001% of the recovered funds, amount paid to those who travelled out to all the 36 states, the FCT and the diaspora.”
