Under the nose of Dr. Sani Teidi Shuaibu as the Director of Pension Administration in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, the sum of N4.56 billion meant for pensioners vanished into thin air. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) later declared in April last year that N1.5 billion of the sum had been traced into Shuaibu’s private account. This was after the commission had confiscated houses and filling stations whose value ran into billions of naira from the Kogi State-born civil servant. The list included a house at No 24, Ahmadu Musa Crescent, Jabi, Abuja; Brefina Hotel at Plot 1106 (Beside MTN) warehouse, adjacent to Vines Hotel, Durumi, Abuja; a house at No 1, Shuaibu Close, opposite Governor’s House, Idah, Kogi State; Riba-Ile Petroleum Ltd; an MRS filling station at Ajaka, Kogi State (registered as Riba- Ile Oil Ltd; another MRS filling station at Idah, registered as Hammo Oil, Nigeria; an NNPC mega station, Idah Junction, Ayingba, registered as Hammo Oil, Nig. Ltd; an MRS filling station at Ganaja, Lokoja, Kogi State, registered as A.Y Ted Oil Ltd; a mansion at Idah, opposite Federal Polytechnic; SunTrust Properties Company Ltd; a house at Plot B59, Dawaki Extension Layout, Bwari Area Council, Abuja; an estate of about 10 bungalows on Dantata Street, Nyanyan, FCT, Abuja. Of course, many other suspected thieves have since been arrested, including John Yusuf, a former assistant director in the Police Pension Office whose case has generated protests from the Nigerian Bar Association, the Nigeria Labour Congress, opposition political parties and other civil society groups after the courts gave him a slap on the wrist, asking him to pay a fine of N750,000 for embezzling N23 billion police pension funds. There is also the current case of the runaway boss of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) boss, Abdulrasheed Maina, who the Senate had asked to account for mismanaged pension funds amounting to about N469 billion Last year, the entire landscape was shaken by revelations of trillions of naira paid out by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to various businessmen as subsidy for fuel they never imported into the country. No fewer than 25 chief executives of companies are currently facing prosecution over alleged theft of subsidy money. A fallout of the development was the sum of $620,000 Hon. Farouk Lawan, the chair of the House Ad-Hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Probe, allegedly demanded from the Chairman of Zenon Oil, Mr. Femi Otedola, with a promise to expunge the name of the latter’s company from the list of companies involved in the subsidy racket. Lawan has since been prosecuted by the Federal Government. During the week, Nigerians woke up to the shocking news that the N1.3 billion bonus money approved by President Goodluck Jonathan for the Super Eagles campaign at the just-concluded African Cup of Nations was shared by top officials of the National Sports Commission and the sports committees of the two chambers of the National Assembly. The development, according to the National Pilot, was the key reason the Nigeria Football Federation had not been able to pay members of the Super Eagles the $ 30,000 promised each of them as bonus for winning the final match against the Stallions of Burkina Faso to win the Nations Cup trophy for the third time. My questions; Can dis pple in their homes tell their children that stealing is bad ? Would d children of dis people not be looking at their father as thieves ?...would they b walking proudly at their homes as successful fathers ?...If we cld start snobbing dis set up pple and make them realise that they are no different frm Oyenusi and Anini of those days.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 06:35:22 +0000
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