Truth
in defence of falsehood is more or less like falsehood in defence of
truth .It is a chaos world .Nothing can be straight and the world is
the worst for it -writer.
Over
the last two or thee months , there had been shocking reports of
unbridled corruption and eye popping revelation about details of
monumental fraud in the high places .Besides the subsidy scam , the
most horrendous and startling testimonies in recent times emanated
again from the national assembly came from the joint committee on
pension scheme .Its reports and depicts the the resilient nature of
corruption and and how some powers and top placed individuals have
brazenly abused the public office and then siphoned and looted retirees
money
without impunity to the detriment of the owners of fund who died in
vain trying to recover the wasted years.It 's unfortunate have been
unable to recover the stipends of their active days .
The
looters of money had a field day carting away their nest eggs and
blood money safely in their hideout and fat bank account which
proliferated without empathy on the side of electorate .This is
uncalled for in a democracy .So many pensioners had died in vain and
their families' fate truly hangs in the balance ..It is heinous crime
.Is there any way out ? The anti graft agencies have become a toothless
bulldog and the law and order has been found wanton ..
The
testimony of the chairman of presidential task force on pension reform
.Mr Abdulrasheed Maina had been shocking .That the pension cabal
swindles on the average of
3billion a day While 2billion was found in the private residencies of
the top echelon of management who formerly managed the fund .One top
official and a director was caught with 12 billion naira at home
and his criminal gangster was found also to have looted 4 billion
naira .That is calamity for the nation !A s blood money flows freely
,the nation wallows in extreme poverty. What happens to those that were
not discovered? Callous piles of dollars $ brazenly converted from
naira was found in the private room of another official and a top
civil servant for that matter. About 151 billion naira was recovered
from the looters' lounge and racket at a time federal government is
still owing over 2 trillion pension arears .This an odd world to be .
Falsification
of document was rampant according to former head of
service Mr Steven Oronsanye when he testified before the senate
committee on establishment and public service on the magnitude of the
scam and its implication to the economy .Such falsification was then
used to roundtrip money from the pension pool .Unveiling the Oronsaye
report Dan Nwekwe in an essay on the sun newspapers -Pension Fraud :
The price of blood money ".He confirmed the report and affirmed that
this falsification was being used to perpetrate fraud right there
inside the office of the accountant general of the federation With a
probative remark , he noted -why did he keep quiet until now ?
The
president task force also detected another shocking over 258 ,000 ghost
pensioners on the list based on the evidence of biometric
verification exercise with only a total of 141 ,764 genuine
beneficiaries .The monthly pension expenditure as noted by some media
reports ordinarily should not be more than 1billion naira Whereas
federal government spends about 5 billion naira monthly on pension
alone .