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Vol. 10 No. 41
Monday, February 25, 2013
. . . putting the people first
Rabiul Akhir 15, 1434 AH
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Tension in Kaduna Lassa fever kills NGF crisis: Jonathan, over Zangon Kataf eight in Kebbi PDP governors state in crucial meeting killings >> PAGE 2
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We can’t guarantee security in Nigeria, says IGP From Olanrewaju Lawal, Ilorin
T
he Inspector General of Police, Mr. Muhammed Abubakar has said that the security of Nigerians could not be completely guaranteed and that no state or region in the country is immune from attack by insurgents. While declaring that every part of Nigeria is under threat of insecurity, he added that “we cannot guarantee that this thing will not occur here or there, so we should be more watchful and be more security conscious. When we do that, we will gradually minimise the threats.” The Police boss said while there is Boko Haram in the North,
Members of a Boko Haram splinter group insisting on a ceasefire at a news conference, on Saturday in Maiduguri. Photo: NAN
Maina fingers HoS in Pension fraud Contd on Page 2
By Agaju Madugba
H
ead of the presidential team on pension reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, who is currently on the run over alleged complicity in the N195 billion pension fraud, has said the Head of Service of the Federation, Isa Sali, has questions to answer on why 98 per cent of pensioners were denied their benefits in 2012. Maina said in a statement yesterday that: “It is surprising to note that when the pension
team concluded paper-work preparation for the payment of November, 2012 monthly pension, as usual, the PRTT (Pension Reform Task Team) sent it to the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bello Isa Sali, who usually approves the payment without delay; but could not attend to it, and with no official communication to date.” According to him, there is what he described as “verifiable” evidence that there is so much looting in which his team had set out to correct regretting that the
process of preparing documents for payments had been “desperately hijacked” by Mr. Sali. Maina further alleged that Sali deliberately refused to sign documents completed by the Pension Reform Task Team, since November. According to him: “As soon as the current Senate issues erupted, the pension team wonders why Alhaji Sali facilitated the hijacking of the payment which would ruin the Federal Government pension
transformation agenda.” In the statement signed by the PRTT media consultant, Olajide Fashikun, Maina also lamented that in the past three months, his team had been stripped of supervisory powers over pension matters. “The unfortunate consequences of these actions are that Nigeria pensioners’ funds are being stolen through a remittal alert where a pensioner received bank alert whereas he is credited with nothing in his bank account, Contd on Page 2
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22nd Feb., 2013
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