The Presidency has assured Nigerians that it would unravel the mystery behind the reinstatement of the former Chairman of the presidential Task Force on pension reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina into the Civil Service. A statement from the office of the President said the return of Maina was a clear indication that corruption was fighting back, as the government intensifies its fight against corruption.
“Everything will be uncovered in due course. This just goes to show us the scale of corruption that this government is fighting. And, as we can all see, corruption keeps fighting back viciously,” the statement said. It says that some influential officials loyal to the previous government may have been the invisible hand in the latest scandal that saw the return of Maina to the public service, despite being on the Economic and Financial Crime Commission’s EFCC wanted list.
“The Presidency insists that the main opposition, People’s Democratic Party PDP, has no moral right to level any accusations against the current government in respect to Abdulrasheed Maina. The President Buhari government has pointed out that the administration’s greatest problem is the tangle left behind by the previous government. Maina is just one more example,” the statement read.
Referring to documented records from the investigations that led to the disgrace of the former pension boss and his being declared wanted by the country’s anti graft agency, the EFCC, the statement said Maina was not the only top member of the former government involved in the multi billion naira pensions scandal.
It added that top officials in the PDP government, from sec-toral heads, to those charged with responsibility for law and order received some billions of naira from Maina and that all transaction records were available.
