Mainagate : Drama as Perm Sec takes responsibility for reinstatement

SHARES

BY Unknown Thursday, November 30, 2017 0

Mainagate : Drama as Perm Sec takes responsibility for reinstatement

The Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Interior, Engineer Abubakar
Magaji, on Thursday owned up to all the administrative lapses leading to the “erroneous reinstatement and promotion of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reform.

Magaji,stated this while anwsering  questions directed at him by members of the House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating the circumstances surrounding the disappearance, reappearance, reinstatement and promotion of Mr. Maina,

The Permanent  secretary had earlier  indicted the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, as being responsible for the letter directing Maina’s reinstatement.

 However, Oyo-Ita in her submision  before the panel marveled at the new stand  by the Permanent Secretary whom she described as “a senior permanent secretary in the civil

 Oyo-Ita therefore declared before that  Maina  remained dismissed from the civil service as far as the rules and her office were concerned.

Speaking ont he alleged  looted assets under the economic and Financial Crimes Commision (EFCC), the acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu told the panel that Maina never hand over any asset to the commission, Adding that assets in EFCC custody are those recovered by the Commission in the course of its own investigation of pension thieves including Maina himself.

Magu argued that the only link between the EFCC and Maina task team was the participation of a few staff of the commission on the Maina team.

“Maina has not a single seized asset he handed over to the EFCC, and if there are any of such, we would like to know the types of assets, the locations, the date of handing over and which officer signed the handing over document of the assets

“So, there can’t be any asset to be shared by the EFCC, and if there was any sharing, we would also like to know when, where, and who per took in the sharing from the EFCC”.

Asked why the EFCC vacated its earlier order declaring Maina wanted in 2015 as stated by the Comptroller General of Immigration, Mohammed Babandede,Magu denied the letter vacating Maina’s earlier order fo arrest saying that it was signed in December while he took over the EFCC in October of same year but did not instruct any Kabiru, a member of Maina’s Task Team from the EFCC  to sign such a leter and that he was seeing the letter for the first time.

  In his own submission     on the controversy, Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun told the Committee that   Maina, did not receive salary from government after his disengagement as being alleged

 She said that from the records of the ministry, there was no trace of any payment of salary to Maina after he was disengaged from service in 2013.

According to her, “We have looked very well and we have no biometrics of Maina, so there is no way he could have received salaries as being claimed

In his submission, the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris, said that Maina was last paid salary in February, 2013.

According to Idris, from March, he was removed from the payroll so I don’t know where he was receiving the salary

“If there was any payment of salary to Maina, there should be pay slips and ‎other documentary evidences to support the payments as claimed.

I‎n his claim, Counsel to Maina, Mohammed Sanni Katu submitted that  here was  a judgment from the Federal High Court  that sets aside the warrant of arrest which led to his query and subsequent dismissal.

According to him,”So our position  that having set aside all those queries and dismissal, it means Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina should revert back to his earlier status and what is that earlier status?

The status is that, before he was dismissed, he was a civil servant and being a civil servant, the question can as well be raised if he is entitled to salary and the answer is yes, that as a federal civil servant, he entitled to his salary.

“At one point, efforts were made to calculate his salaries from March 2013 till date, perhaps if not for what has happened now, they would have paid him salary in October

So, we are talking on the premise of the dictates of the law and the law is made up facts and the facts are contained in the judgement of the Federal High Court”.

Unknown Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.