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Anti-reform forces plot against Maina, the
Federal Pension Czar Newsdiaryonline
Wed Oct 5,2011
The efforts of Abdulrashid Maina to strengthen
the Pension reforms in the office of the Head of Service
continues to face more resistance.Newsdiaryonline had reported
last year that Maina escaped what looked like an assassination
attempt.
Fresh information reaching Newsdiaryonline
said that yet to be determined people have continued to threaten
Maina .One of the latest moves by those referred to as people
resisting the restructuring in the federal pension sytem is to
bombard Maina with SMS messages threatening him with possible
dismissal in order to get him to soft-pedal .
One of the text messages to Maina on Tuesday
according to a source close to him gave a clue into the plot
against Maina: ”I want to predict to you,if you are not careful
you will be desmissed(sic) from civil service the way you are
dribbling people stupid(sic)’’.A source close to him said the
above SMS was another in
the series of text messages sent to Maina from “those resisting
the restructuring in pension.” Whether the pension mafia will
actually succeed in ensuring his dismissal remains to be seen.
 Newsdiaryonline had reported exclusively that
given his successful handling of the pension at CIPPO, steve
Oronsaye who was then the Head of service brought Maina to his
the office to help clear the Augean Stables in the
pension system there.The new pension Czar came under all kinds
of intimidation including alleged attempts to bribe him by those
known to belong to the pension cabal,but he resisted .With the
ongoing text messages, it appears the anti-reform agents are yet
to give up despite
the fact that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission I
already trying some suspect over the pension fraud uncover after
the efforts by Maina and hi team.
The EFCC in May
arraigned a former Director of the Pensions Department, Office
of the Head of Service of the Federation, Dr Sani Teidi Shuaibu,
along with five other persons, over their alleged roles they
played in the illegal diversion of N12 billion from government
coffers through fictitious contract claims.
Others who pleaded not guilty to the charge also included former
Deputy to the pension boss, Mrs. Phina Chidi; his personal
assistant, Aliyu Bello, Abdullahi Omeiza, Garba Abdullahi Tahir
and Emmanuel Olanipekun
But the EFCC maintained that they conspired and swindled the
Federal Government through over 130 bogus contracts
which they purportedly
awarded to 25 different companiesThe scam occurred
between 2008 and 2010.
The anti graft agency listed 26 companies
that participated in the alleged fraud among
defendants in the case
but it discharged Mohammed Katun Ahmed who had earlier been
among those accused
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