Alleged Corruption:CSOs Drag PENCOM Boss To EFCC, ICPC

Some Civic groups have dragged the Director General of the National Pension Commission PENCOM, Mrs Aisha Dahir-Uman before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the  Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over allegations of abuse of office and corruption.

The group led by its Executive Director, Comrade Olufemi Lawson, in a petition submitted the anti-corruption agencies on Monday, said it has taken the step, following earlier call by other patriotic Nigerians, and groups, including the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), which had earlier said that President Nuhammadu Buhari, order a probe, into the activities of the Pension Commission.

The group is asking the EFCC and the ICPC, to conduct investigation, into allegations of several acts of corruption,  particularly as related, “into several funds received by Aisha Dahir-Umar, from PENCOM for foreign trips and courses which she never attended.”

Part of the petition read “We hope to also intimate you, with the fact that after collecting those funds, Aisha Dahir-Umar, hides in her Abuja residence or outside Abuja for a few days and return to work pocketing Tens of millions of Naira and several sums of foreign currency. This act corruption, was recently repeated a few weeks ago as she was paid over Forty mllion Naira, for a foreign trip, which she never attended. ” 

The group further urged the  anti-corruption agencies, to carry out an audit of payments made to the PENCOM Boss, for foreign courses, requesting for attendance certificates, air tickets and boarding passes as proof of attendance.

The group called for the thorough and credible investigation of the allegation by the anti-graft bodies without minding whose ox was gored.