Contrary to claims by the Joint Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service and States and Local Government Administration, chaired by Senator Aloysius Etok,? that its preliminary findings revealed the illegal transfer of the sum of N3billion? opening of an account, which was done in the name of one Adamu Salihu and D.G with different codes, was not ratified by the Accountant General of the Federation, the Pension Reform task team has described the submission as untrue.
Hassan Salihu, Speaking through its Information and Communication Officer, Mr. Hassan Salihu, the task team explained that the said account in UBA was opened vide Accountant-General’s Approval with Reference? Number AGF/TRY/RB/508/VOL I/20 dated August 2011 in the name of the POLICE PENSION OFFICE for the payment of accrued pension liabilities, adding that the account was still in the name of the Police Pension Account and not the Task Team nor its members as alleged.
The team, headed by Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina further disclosed that? though the account was frozen vide a request from the Task Team and at the Instance of the Minister of Finance after obtaining approval from Mr. President, the funds was intact and safe in UBA Account 1015556733 and could not be accessed by the pension thieves hence, the unfounded and malicious allegation.
The team maintained that the cheap blackmail by the Pension thieves, who are bent on tarnishing their image, cannot deter them from performing their constitutional assignment and assured Nigerians that the unrelenting onslaughts will only spur the Team to perform even better, seeing that the pension thieves are already exposed.’
‘The Task Team is used to such, as similar allegations have earlier been leveled against the Task Team which was discovered to be baseless