A new twist was added in the ongoing probe of the management of the pension fund in Nigeria as the Senate Panel investigating the process yesterday ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar to arrest and produce the Chairman, Pension Reform Task Force Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, before the Committee by 10am tomorrow over alleged embezzlement of police pension fund.
Also, the panel summoned the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde.
Okonjo-Iweala is to give the reasons for freezing pension account over allegations of deduction of N119million while Lamorde will explain the alleged complicity of some of his officers in the activities of the pension task force.
The order was made against the backdrop of more mind bogging revelations on the alleged excesses of the taskforce on the pension fund.
The Chairman of the Joint Committee on Public Service and Establishment and State and Local Government Administration, Senator Aloysius Etok, nonetheless commended the courage.