Maina stopped looting of N63bn annually – Family

The family of embattled former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, said Maina stopped an annual leakage of N63.3 billion from the nation’s pension sector.

Media consultant to the family, Olajide Fashikun, said at a media briefing in Kaduna that between the Head of Service office and the Police Pension office, a leakage of N5.32 billion was stopped per month.

He said 43 people were arrested and handed over to the EFCC to prosecute while 222 houses were seized.

“In the current media trial of Abdulrasheed Maina, all manner of stories has been published. There has been a lot of distortion of facts and sometimes outright blackmail, all in an attempt to paint the PRTT boss black like Lucifer,” he said.

The Maina family spokesman said after the biometric exercise, there were 71,000 genuine workers in the police pension office who needed N826 million to pay them instead of the N5.3 billion appropriated for them annually.

“They were pocketing N4.2 billion yearly. They devised several ingenious ways to pull these cash out. They pulled out an average of N300 million daily Monday to Friday. There are bank alerts to substantiate these assertions,” he said, alleging that there had been a lot of deliberate cover in a well written script to give Maina a bad name. “If Maina stole, it certainly cannot be from the PRTT. Those who worked in the PRTT do ‘kabu-kabu’ to augment their survival. They were severely starved of funds,” he said.