The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazzau, has released a
statement explaining why former pension boss, Abdulrasheed Maina, who
had been declared wanted by the EFCC and INTERPOL for committing $2.1
billion fraud while in office in 2013, was recently reinstated and even
promoted. Maina was dismissed in 2015 and has been on the EFCC and
INTERPOL's watchlist after evading arrest by the agencies several times.
He reportedly bought an apartment in Abuja for $2 million. Read the
statement by Ehisienmen Osaigbovo, the Minister of
Interior's spokesperson below...
“The publication, which queries the reinstatement of former Chairman
of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, reportedly claimed
that the Interior Minister was one of those behind the said
reinstatement. It is observed that some insinuations as it concerns the
Interior Minister were presented as facts, hence the compelling need to
proffer some clarifications for reference purposes. The ex- Chairman of
the Presidential Task Force Team on Pension Reforms Abdulrasheed Maina
was posted few days ago to the Ministry of Interior by the Office of the
Head of Service in an Acting capacity to fill a vacancy created
following the retirement of the Director heading the Human Resources
Department in the Ministry. For the avoidance of doubt, issues relating
to discipline, employment, re-engagement, posting, promotion and
retirements of Federal Civil Servants are the responsibility of the
Federal Civil Service Commission and Office of the Head of Service of
the Federation, of which no Minister exercises such powers as
erroneously expressed in this publication. It is understood that Maina’s
last posting was with the Ministry of Interior, and that is probably
why he was re-posted back to the Ministry. It is therefore improper for
anybody to think that a Minister could exercise such powers or influence
the process of Discipline, Re-engagement, and Deployment of any civil
servant to his Ministry or any other Ministry for that matter. Again
such responsibility is that of the Federal Civil Service Commission
and/or the Head of Civil Service. In any case, the relevant institutions
of government are alive to their responsibilities regarding the
allegations confronting Mr. Maina.”Credit: LIB
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