There are fresh allegations that a former director in the pension department in the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation,Dr. Shaibu Teidi and his assistant, Mrs. P.U.Chidi with some bank managers and their family members diverted more than N5.5 billion to their personal pockets.
Teidi and 39 others are being tried in an Abuja court for allegedly embezzling funds meant for pensioners.
It was alleged that one Boniface Jirbo, who was said to be the branch manager of a first generation bank, Maitama Abuja and the sole owner of Newgate Energy Ltd, Redwings Procurement Services, allegedly opened an account for the two companies with the account numbers 1040078025 and 1040603294 respectively.
Jirbo was also alleged to have opened another account in the name of J.K Palawinco Nig Ltd and Effect Services Ltd with the account numbers 04970030001570 and 0052003002800.
The accounts credited with N81,024,300; N26,730,9500 and N39,016,00.
According to reports, when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) conducted a search on Jirbo’s office, several deposit slips that were allegedly used to make deposits were recovered.
He allegedly confessed to have remitted N146,771,252 to one Mrs Chidi through Pam Investment Properties account with a first generation bank said to have been paid to his companies, while he allegedly benefited five per cent of the total sum which amounted to N7,338,562.60.
Jirbo also reportedly confessed to have used his customer’s companies bank accounts, Effect Services Ltd and J.K Palawinco Nigeria Ltd to collect N116,525,000 and N105,100,000 respectively for supposed fictitious contracts from OHCSF.
It was alleged that a former manager of a new generation bank, Durumi branch, Abuja, was also allegedly used to divert N221,013,727 by using his wife and mother-in-law.
His wife was allegedly paid N9,414,350 as pension gratuity while N55,525,001 was reportedly paid to her company, Ossy Integrated Prints for supposedly fictitious contracts and supplies.
It was also alleged that the mother-in-law was reportedly credited with N18,907,100 as five months pension and gratuity entitlements.
Furthermore, it was alleged that N2,625,001 and N9,582,441.13 respectively were paid to two friends of the bank manager as pension and gratuity, while O.G Fortunes Nig Ltd. and Fairwinds and Tours reportedly collected N9,700,000 and N4,850,000.
Another friend of the manager, who was said to be a youth corps member in Lagos State in 2011, allegedly collected N8,539,332.09 as pension arrears and gratuity, while N13.6 million and N12.6 million were allegedly fraudulently paid to her company.
More so, the bank manager allegedly opened fictitious accounts with another new generation bank in six other names where N7,473,012.84; N17,411; 637.58; N12,901; 663.71; N14,241,000, N28,515,545.20 and N22,876,504.33 respectively were allegedly credited to the accounts as pension arrears and gratuity.
Our correspondent discovered that the account addresses were vague,while calls placed on the numbers provided by the ‘fictitious pensioners’ did not go through.
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pple are wicked
ReplyDeleteand pensioners keep dieing in droves because of their inability to access their pensions. it is well in Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteeven in countries that are branded Communist, its death sentence to corrupt govenment officials, what happens to PEN robbers of Tafa,Cecilia,Bankole stature whilst people who stole bread, gsm etc are burnt to death,jailed for years .God is watching and waiting for us all on the great judgement day!!!can we bring back souls that have died because of these kleptomaniac insensitivities?
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