The National Pension Commission’s Director-General, Mrs. Aisha Dahir-Umar, has stated that the commission will not give room for anyone to pilfer pension funds for self aggrandisement.
This was stated in a statement released on Saturday and signed by PenCom Management.
Mrs. Dahir-Umar said in the statement that PenCom was aware of a planned plan to use irrational petitions to the anti-graft agencies with the assistance of disgruntled insiders to throw the Commission into disrepute.
She was quoted in the statement as saying, “These elements, some of whom are yet to come to terms with the fact that PenCom is no longer at their beck and call, have been sponsoring negative media reports and getting faceless groups to write frivolous petitions to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
“Although, some low-level media outfits are giving a voice to these defamatory petitions, those who know how we conduct our affairs at PenCom are not in any way bothered. Since I took over as the DG, we have undertaken far-reaching reforms within the organisation which are yielding positive results
“Those who think they can use the commission to make money or that they should be the ones calling the shots are bitterly disappointed and are sponsoring false publications and trumped-up petitions. We will co-operate fully with the agencies. Our message to the disgruntled elements today is exactly as it was yesterday: we will not allow anyone to pilfer pension funds for self-aggrandisement. It will never happen under my watch.”
She added that the blackmail had been going on since 2017 and that the Commission had resisted giving up since it had nothing to conceal.
