The embattled former Chairman of
the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team, PRTT, Abdulrasheed Maina, has denied
naming the Chairman of the Senate Ad-Hoc committee on probing his
reinstatement, Emmanuel Paulker, in the list of those who re-looted properties
he recovered from pension thieves.
Maina in a statement by his
spokesman, Mohammed Sabo, said he has never mentioned Sen. Paulker nor has he
ever met with the said senator.
The ex-pension boss said the
report was a cheap blackmail targeted at creating discord between him and the
senator.
Sen. Paulker had during a Senate
plenary last week sought the mandate of the upper legislative chamber to
investigate how the EFCC allegedly shared over 222 properties recovered by the
Maina-led PRTT under its custody.
Few days after moving the motion,
report went viral on social media that Maina named Paulker among those who
re-looted the loots he recovered.
Maina’s spokesperson in a
statement issued Saturday night, described the report as a blackmail coming as
a seed of discord to alter Paulker’s good work and reputation.
He said, “Paulker has nothing to
do with the pension funds and has never named anywhere in regard to Pension
fund.
“I strongly believe that it is
the EFCC which has paid the media house to publish this and other false
reports.
“We have instructed our lawyer to
institute a legal action if within seven days against the media houses for
deformation of character and falsehood, we must see to the end of it.
“We are not unaware of how much
was paid to them and others to thwart the National Assembly’s probe and to
tarnish Paulker’s hard-earned image probably to incite him against Maina.
“I hereby urge the general public
to disregard this falsehood. Emmanuel Paulker is not among the pension thieves.
“The pension thieves include the
EFCC staff and all the beneficiaries of the recovered properties and cash from
the 43 pension suspects,” he added
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