PENSION THIEVES ARE AFTER ME, MAINA CRIES OUT •PROMISES TO REAPPEAR AFTER SORTING OUT PERSONAL SECURITY

WANTED Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina has said he had nothing to hide from the Senate on the allegations levelled against him and would only resurface after sorting out the issue of threats to his life and that of his family members by those he described as agents of pension thieves.

Maina said his non-appearance before the Senate was a deliberate ploy to avoid being pinned to a corner by some Senators who he said have been calling him names and were never prepared to give him a fair hearing, notwithstanding that many of them knew that he did not steal a penny from the pension funds he had so far recovered.

The PRTT Chairman attributed the hype on his whereabouts as the handiwork of pension thieves, who according to him had sworn to deal ruthlessly with him while making several attempts to his life all the same, a reason he said he had to go underground.

Maina said he was not surprised at the turn of events which he stressed have now thrown up those he was after for looting the Pension funds, as the ones now in control with veritable opportunity to determine his fate in line with their earlier threats,. He wondered why the government of the day was not going after such individuals, rather than coming after him.

He said he had taken his case to a court of law to fight for safety while safeguarding his personal integrity, stating that he would appear to answer every question put to him on the allegations being levelled against him, the moment his safety was guaranteed.

 Maina spoke through the PRTT spokesperson, Hassan Salisu, who said the allegations against the Pension Reform Task Team on misappropriation of pension funds were baseless and untrue.

 Hassan, in a statement, said the allegations he described as spurious emanated from Senators Etuk and Kabiru Gaya, two members of the Senate pension probe Committee who he said bitterly hated the Pension Task Team with intense passion. He said there was no established fact to support the Senate’s allegations against him.

Hassan said the PRTT was convinced that the Senate Pension Probe Committee had grossly misinformed and misled the entire Senate with what he described as “a fictitious report muddled up with a multitude of naked untrue and misleading unjustifiable conclusions against the Pension Reform Task Team.”

Source: tribune